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Cyclopentadiene

Good orbital diagram, but a bit more on what kinetic control actually means please.

Taxol

No diagrams, so I cannot tell what your geometries were|? Were they chair or boat? If chair, which chair of two? Discussion very short as well. No real analysis of hyperstable alkenes.

NMR

Again, no geometries, so again no information on the conformations (even more possibilities here, including the 5-ring). Thus "greater deviations are seen perhaps to the dimethyl protons " What do you mean by greater? How much greater? A statistical analysis can help here.

Good 13C results (your conformation, whatever it is, must have been a good one).

Epoxides

X-ray

"C-O bond lengths at C(2) anomeric centre are much shorter due to the favoured anti-periplanar arrangement of the lone pair and σ* C". Have you measured that it actually is antiperiplanar? You can idealise the position of a lone pair on oxygen, and measure the dihedral for yourself.

You do not cite the lit ref for the crystal structures you found!

NMR

Just one lit ref for the NMR? I am sure there are many!

"Colorless liquid; yield: 44 mg (37%); 87% ee [chiral GC analysis, chiral capillary column β-Hydrodex PM, 100 °C, isothermal, t R = 14.45 min (major), 15.13 min (minor)]. [α]D 20 +20.3 (c 0.3, CH2Cl2) {Lit. [8b] [α]D 23 +28.6 (neat)}. Schaus SE. Brandes BD. Larrow JF. Tokunada M. Hansen KB. Gould AE. Furrow ME. Jacobsen EN. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124: 1307" Are you quoting verbatim here? It is not the normal way to cite the literature.

Again, although you show a nice bar plot of deviations, there is no real discussion of the statistics.

Rotations

ORD = dispersion is the variation with wavelength of the rotation. Is this what you are reporting? I think you mean ORP?

"Mechanistic Model" What is this? Quote the details of the calculation. Mechanistic does not mean much in this context. Again, you quote only one lit ref (that one that agreed best with your calculation?).

I have a real problem with your dihydronaphthalene. (1S,2R) and (1R,2S) are enantiomers, are they not. The rotations should be equal but opposite in sign. Your calc most certainly is not! Likewise the lit values. Something wrong here!

You seem to include the VCD for no reason, and no discussion? Why? Just because you are given a toolbox, does not mean you have to use ALL the tools? Is there a lit value for you to compare with?

TS

"Calculation of enantiomeric excess of R,S-". ? But in fact the energy shows that the S,R is LOWER, and therefore that it, not the R,S is in enantiomeric excess. Did you spot this? Apparentlhy,the lit agrees with you, but the calculations do not. You need to sort this one out.

NCI and QTAIM

No discussion.

Overall, the results were variable, you did not spot some discrepancies, and your 3D models are absent. You need to think a little more about what your results mean.