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In chemical reactions, the ene reaction (also known as the Alderene reaction, named after its discoverer Kurt Alder, for whom it was named in 1943) is a reaction between an alkene containing an allylic hydrogen (Len) and a molecule containing the molecule contains a multiple bond (the enophile), resulting in the formation of a multiple bond. The migration of an ENE double bond and an increase in the hydrogen shift of 1.5 creates a new hydrogen bond. It is a substituted alkene in which the double bond has been shifted to the allyl position as shown in the diagram that follows this procedure