How to pronounce“enones”in English

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.

Sulfur is a soft nucleophile, and can react with enones through conjugate addition, like we saw in Episode 45. So their strategy was to make an enone that sulfur could react with.

And this reaction makes the enone toxic to invaders.