“…A number of years later, Scheibler and his coworkers, in a series of investigations of the action of finely divided alkali metals on the esters of the lower fatty acids, came to the conclusion that the first product of the action of potassium upon ethyl acetate in absolute ether has the structure, CH2=C(OC2H5)(OK), this representing the sodium salt of the enolic form of the ester (306,307,303).…”