Enone
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An enone is an unsaturated chemical compound or functional group consisting of a conjugated system of an alkene and a ketone. The simplest enone is methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) or CH2=CHCOCH3.
As an example, an enone such as a chalcone can be synthesized in a Knoevenagel condensation. In the Meyer-Schuster rearrangement the starting compound is a propargyl alcohol.
In the Nazarov cyclization reaction an enone is a reactant.
An enamine is a cousin of an enone, with the carbonyl replaced by an amine group.
