There was no question that the reaction but transient colors were seen in the slurry of sodium methoxide in dichloromethane and we got a whole lot of products for which we can't sort out the kinetics the next slide will show the most important part very rapidly within two minutes and I forgot to say on further warming we get in fact the keytone.

The Metamict State, Next Slide Please (p. 51), University of Central Florida Press. 1987