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Horizontal fusional limits and lateral phorias were measured subjectively on five normal subjects after adaptation to increments of base-in and base-out prism. Both the phoria and the fusional limits were found to change by approximately the amount of the adapting prism. The fusional amplitudes (the difference between the phoria and the fusional limits) were relatively unaffected by vergence adaptation except at the largest values of adapting prism. These results are in agreement with current models of disparity vergence eye movement control which suggest that there are independent fast and slow fusional vergence mechanisms, each with its own saturation limit.

Six bis(silyl)acetylenes (XMe2SiCCSiMe2X) with the following varied silicon substituents X were prepared: 1 (Me, Me); 2 (H, H); 3 (C1, H); 4 (CI, CI); 5 (MeO, H); 6 (MeO, MeO). While 1 and 2 may be prepared by the reaction of dilithio- or bis(bromomagnesium)-acetylide with the appropriate chlorosilane, similar reactions designed to give 3–6 yielded oligomers, XMe2Si(CCSiMe2)nX, 7, X=CI, MeO, as the major products, indicating that the acetylenic functionality on silicon activates the chlorosilane towards nucleophilic substitution. Compounds 3 and 4 were prepared by free radical chlorination of 2. Methanolysis of 3 and 4 gave quantitative yields of 5 and 6 respectively. Compounds 1–6 undergo a Diels–Alder reaction with α-pyrone to produce, after loss of carbon dioxide, bis(silyl)-substituted benzene derivatives. The order of reactivity has been determined to be: 4=6>3=5>1>2, indicating that chloro or alkoxy substituents favor the cycloaddition with 2- pyrone. The adducts formed by compounds 3–6 undergo an unusually facile hydrolysis or elimination to give 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-1,3-disila-2-oxaindane.

Etude de la pyrolyse du (E)-methyl-2 phenyl-2 neopentyl-3 dibenzo [5,6:7,8] sila-2bicyclo [2.2.2] octane en presence de methoxy trimethyl silane

The reaction of two equivalents of vinyldimethylethoxysilane or vinyldimethylmethoxysilane with hydrocarbon soluble alkyllithium reagents; t -BuLi, s -BuLi, or n -BuLi; in hexane at low temperature gives high yields of 1,1-dimethyl-2-alkyl-4-(dimethylalkoxysilyl)silacyclobutanes. With methyl- or phenyllithium substituted vinylsilanes are obtained. The stereochemistry of the silacyclobutanes is assigned on the basis of Si-29 and H-1 NMR. For vinyldimethylethoxysilane the ratio of cis to trans silacyclobutane is about 57 43 , and is independent of the alkyllithium reagent used. In the reaction of vinyldimethylmethoxysilane with t -BuLi a sol70 30 ratio of the cis and trans silacyclobutane is obtained. A pathway is proposed which is consistent with the stereochemical results and with the products isolated in the reaction run in THF.