Hi! I'm Jared Fleischer

   First thing's first: I adore the shape. The most elegant organic bicycle has gone unappreciated for far too long. They call my boy Biphenylene a wasted dimer byproduct 'impurity'  just because he smells like hay and isn't the result of the cycloaddition reaction any chemist would be trying to perform... too cruel if you ask me.

   Now onto Benzyne. Far too few understand how cool my boy Benzyne is- he's just so special. Show his Lewis structure to a fledgeling in Organic Chemistry class, and they think you made a mistake while drawing his straight-edge cousin, Benzene. Show him to an expert, and they call him an 'intermediate' simply because of his high reactivity, as if mocking his fleeting existence. Show him to most recruiters and they say, "uh... okay?" clearly  unappreciative of his honest quirks.

   You see, Benzyne's outer triple bond is often depicted as sp-hybridized, but the truth is that it is constrained by geometry to be a lot closer to sp²-hybridization (120° bond angle instead of 180°). This makes the outer triple bond very weak, and essentially in resonance with two charged forms, which explains why both carbons act as electrophiles.

   In theory, this should make the outer bond of Benzyne's triple bond sort of bent. However, nowhere  online could I find a 3D model of Benzyne properly depicted with slight bending- probably because most AI 3D structure generators would consider the geometry impossible at a glance. This irked me. I knew something had to be done, and I figured if I'm gonna bother correcting the record by making my own 3D model, I may as well make it fun and interactive (even if the electromagnetic effect is a little wonky since I had to lock the z-axis velocity to make the UX better).

   Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. I hope I tricked you into enjoying chemistry for a second.