Talk:Mod:lg1109mod1

Cpd dimers: Instead of ‘according to the table’, say something like ‘according to our calculations’, the table is not the source of the answers, your calculations are. Good to see you clearly outlining the differences in your table and that you’re relating energies to structural features. You could have done with a better description of kinetic/thermodynamic control.

Taxol: Where are the jmols? I’d have liked to examine your structures. It is better to show that one conformation is lower in energy than another with the results of calculations, rather than breezing over the fact in your text. No mention of hyperstable alkenes?

Carbene: “Will give lots of information” is not the most scientific of language. You state that the molecule has Cs symmetry. Is this observed in your calculated orbitals?

Glycosidation: Good to see you’ve included jmols and that you’ve minimised the structures, but where’s the analysis?

Mini-project: Five tables and three sentences do not a mini-project make.

Overall: Disappointing. If you don’t engage with the problem and offer some sort of analysis or evaluation of the problem then I can’t give you good marks