User talk:Cp308

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Do remember to put your name at the top of any report. you dont want to be anonymous.

good introduction.

Cyclopentadiene: Superb! Glorious discussion and perfect results. well done.

Prolinol. Nice results again, and you spotted that for 7, its repulsions that are the explanation, whereas with 5 its attraction to the Mg. You quote only one reference, that given in the instructions. did you not find any others to cite?

Taxol. Your structures are spot on, but you report no energies? You did correctly conclude that 10 is lower than 9, but by how much?

Carbene: The correct result is that the molecule, having a plane of symmetry, should also reveal this plane in the orbitals. I can see that symmetry in some of your orbitals, but the LUMO+2 has me baffled. It should lie along the C-Cl axis, but it does not appear to do so. A mystery there that you should have picked up upon. You report lots of mechanics results, but in fact you are supposed to study this using MO theory. Apart from the orbitals, there are no MO results quoted. The vibrations are missing.

Mini Project. As far as I can tell, you wanted to test if the conversion of 5 to 6 was achieved. But they differ in functional group, not stereochemistry, and the object of this project was to test the latter, not the former. This bit has been added on Saturday, so a 15% penalty on this mark alone is applied. If fact, you do not report much on the topic,and no spectroscopic evaluatoins are conducted.

Overall, you started the project so very well, and it really petered out near the end. I guess you have to learn to manage your time better, spending it more evenly throughout the module.