From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Mar 29 13:21:00 2013 From: "Tijesunimi John Odebode tijesunimi=yahoo.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Spartan Message-Id: <-48487-130329131839-19434-MLGOo7+/4JcpIZMVUdpMig:server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Tijesunimi John Odebode" Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:18:34 -0400 Sent to CCL by: "Tijesunimi John Odebode" [tijesunimi-x-yahoo.com] Hello, Is anyone familiar with the Spartan'10 program. I am a first year graduate student in synthetic organic chemistry. I am investigating some intramolecular diels-alder reactions to evaluate the effects of electron withdrawing groups on the facility of the reactions. Is anyone familiar with how to predict reactons' facility using Spartan. I am a novice in this area so any suggestions, papers to read, and more would be appreciated. Thanks