I'm working with Dr. Bushweller and Dr. Jewett, in the Chemistry department at UVM, with a few interesting aromatic norborane derivatives, exploring the barriers to rotation of certain key functional groups and the rate of nitrogen inversion. My project involves constructing computer models of the molecules and performing forcefield and dihedral driver calculations. We're using a program called PCModel. Results from these calculations will be compared with results from low temperature dynamic NMR studies that Dr.Bushweller has completed, on the same compounds. I will hopefully get some cool pictures of the molecules up here shortly.