Talk:Aryne

Would not a better structure 2 have double bonds from carbons 1-2, 2-3, 3-4 and 5-6 ?

I would read the drawing in a way which is proposed by the above question. T.vanschaik (talk) 20:24, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Contradiction?

The article seems somewhat contradictory, to me. Paragraph two says, "[The name 'benzyne'] is open for criticism because it implies a triple bond which would be a special case of triple bonds, so a better name is didehydrobenzene." I'm not sure what "implies a triple bond which would be a special case of triple bonds" means (can anyone rephrase this into something comprehensible?) but sentence seems to me to be saying that we shouldn't call it "benzyne" because "-yne" suggests a triple bond that isn't there. However, the rest of that paragraph and the following one repeatedly calls the substance "benzyne" and talks about its triple bond.Dricherby (talk) 01:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Recent Changes

I see there have been a lot of changes recently, and a bit of an edit skirmish. Could we please have some dialog? The opening image was topical and nice, but not terribly encyclopedic--was that the issue? The new content is nice, but it does need some copy-editing. Can we work together here? Eugene Kwan (talk) 04:45, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

content vanished

All nice and well, the article expansion but at the same time a lot of content has vanished. Look more like an article replacement. Deletion of content should be discussed / commented. V8rik (talk) 19:57, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear V8rik, I have incorporated a lot of the content that was on the previous article in text. Have replaced figures with ones that have same chem draw settings. The metal-benzyne complexes part was heavily based on just a few papers, and was a bit detached from the rest of the article, but can be returned to the article. Alevina89 —Preceding undated comment added 00:20, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Currently (13/6/2019) it has this sentence:

"Even at low temperatures arynes are extremely reactive. Their reactivity can be classified in four major classes: (1) nucleophilic additions, (2) pericyclic reactions, and (3) bond-insertion. "

Whats the 4th class? Accidentally omitted or edited out?

o-, m- and p-Benzynes or 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4-didehydrobenzenes?

It is well accepted that only 1,2-didehydrobenzene can be called benzyne, implying a triple bond between two consecutive carbon atoms. The other two isomers SHOULD NEVER be called m-benzyne and p-benzyne, there is no possible structure with a triple bond. IUPAC (and common sense) recommends the names 1,3- and 1,4-didehydrobenzene for these intermediates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniblanco (talk • contribs) 13:31, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Good point. It was a student project and was never corrected. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:24, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

I added the IUPAC cites to the lede. Looks like dehydrobenzene/dehydroarene should be an article and shift the 1,3- and 1,4- content from here to there. DMacks (talk) 16:39, 19 October 2017 (UTC)