How to pronounce“enone”in English

And this reaction makes the enone toxic to invaders.

So there are two possibilities for an enone reaction.

So when we have an enone with two electrophilic sites, the carbonyl carbon is a harder electrophile because it’s closer to the electron-pulling oxygen,

The toxic chemical weapon of the soldier termites is an enone.

The newly-formed bisulfide anion – a soft nucleophile – attacks the enone at the beta position to form the conjugate addition product.

It turns out that conjugate addition reactions aren't unique to enones – conjugated carboxylic acid derivatives can undergo this kind of reaction,

Besides being fun to make, enones can also be reagents in some interesting chemical reactions.