comments

No authorship at top? Anonymous report?

Cyclopentadiene

Good results. Nice presentation. I liked the inclusion of Figure 7, but you clearly obtained it elsewhere (it is not your own!). Unless I missed it, I cannot find a reference to the figure, which would be needed to avoid any issues of plagiarism (this can be a serious matter!).

Discussion on the bending term in the hydrogenation short?

Pyridinium rings

Decent results, but you do not really discuss the orientation of the carbonyl wrt the aromatic ring (apart from the figure which comes later). Did you investigate the bug in the mechanics method? I am confused about your assertion that molecule 7 reacts with Mg? It reacts with aniline! What are the differences? Too little discussion here

Taxol

Your molecule 9 and 10 has no hydrogens? Did you minimise with no hydrogens? 9 has a boat? I can only see a chair! Very little discussion

Dichlorocarbene addition

No discussion of the geometry of the molecule and the very obvious distortion which needs explaining (associated with the orbital overlaps). A MO diagram here is useful.

IR spectra displayed back to front and upside down from normal! Did you not notice this? More discussion of vibrations, and perhaps correlation with bond lengths?

Project

Lit ref to project? No real introduction to the project, or what you were trying to prove. The analysis of the spectra was fairly thin. This shows that the molecular mechanics method is a reasonable way to predict NMR values is quite wrong! You were using quantum mechanics. IR does not really help here. Is there any expt data for the rotations?

Your report does not carry the authority needed to demonstrate you understand what you are doing. It is far to brief in the discussion.