Abstract: The photochemistry of phenyl-tert-butylacetylene and 3, 3-dimethyl-1, 5-diphenyl-1, 4-pentadiyne was studied. Although the latter compound is formally a di-a-methane system, it did not undergo the di-r-methane rearrangement. Rather, it afforded 5, 5-dimethyl-2, 3- diphenylcyclopentadiene and 3, 3-dimethyl-l, 5-diphenyl-l-penten-4-yne when the photolysis was run in isopropyl alcohol. In tert-butyl alcohol photolysis afforded only the ...