To elaborate the concept of weak interactions and their effect on Bergman Cyclization (BC), several 1,2-dikynyl benzenes incorporating various combinations of donor and acceptor units in the two arms of the enediynes were designed and synthesized, and their charge-transfer interactions followed by UV/Vis spectroscopy. The thermal reactivities, as studied by DSC, show an increase in reactivity for the donor/acceptor More than fifty years ago, Mulliken [1] suggested that charge-transfer (CT) complexes "may afford new possibilities for understanding intermolecular interactions in biological systems". This statement proved to be true after several biochemical phenomena were explained on the basis of CT complex formation. [2][3][4][5] CT complexes arising from the interaction of aromatic π-donor and -acceptor molecules have been studied extensively. However, fewer intramolecular CT analogs have been reported, primarily of the cyclophane type, in which the donor and acceptor portions are locked together in a rather rigid arrangement.[6] More flexible intramolecular CT complexes have been reported in a recent communication, whereby a cyclohexane skeleton is substituted at adjacent trans positions with aromatic donor and acceptor groups.[7] Besides charge-transfer interactions, attractive, nonbonding interactions between aromatic units (π-stacking) play a central role in many areas of chemistry and biochemistry, the most notable ones being in molecular recognition and self-assembly, [8] in base-pair stacking in DNA, [9] and in controlling the tertiary structure of proteins, [10] and hence are of interest to all realms of chemistry and biology. The activity profiles of the well-known, medicinally important enediynes are greatly perturbed by weak interactions.[11] Jones et al. [12] have shown that strong electron-withdrawing groups increase the barrier for Bergman cyclization, while σ-donating groups decrease it; π-conjugation, in particular donation, has little effect. In a recent paper Alabugin [13] evaluated the stereoelectronic effects in cyclohexane-, 1,3-dioxane-, 1,3-oxathiane-, and 1,3-dithiane- [ based enediynes. Zaleski et al. [14] have shown how dramatically the steric influences of the functional groups at the termini of acyclic enediynes can affect the Bergman cyclization (BC) temperatures of the resulting compounds. In this communication, we wish to describe, for the first time, the synthesis and characterization of a series of donor-acceptor (D/A) containing 1,2-dialkynylbenzenes (Figure 1) and the effect of CT complexation and π-π interactions on the kinetics of the BC. The corresponding D/D and A/A counterparts were also synthesized to compare the reactivities towards BC. Incidentally, aromatic 1,2-dialkynyl systems have been considered in the literature [15] to be a variant of Figure 1. Representation of donor-acceptor-containing enediynyl compounds.