Ene reaction
CHEMICAL REACTION
Carbonyl-ene reaction; Alder ene reaction; Conia reaction; Carbonyl-ene-reaction; Alder ene; Alder-ene reaction
The ene reaction (also known as the Alder-ene reaction by its discoverer Kurt Alder in 1943) is a chemical reaction between an alkene with an allylic hydrogen (the ene) and a compound containing a multiple bond (the enophile), in order to form a new σ-bond with migration of the ene double bond and 1,5 hydrogen shift. The product is a substituted alkene with the double bond shifted to the allylic position.