Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry

E: Describes the configuration of a double bond in which the two groups of highest Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority lie on opposite sides. From the German entgegen, meaning opposite.



(2E,4Z)-2,4-hexadiene
  
(1E,3Z)-2-bromo-1-chloro-4-iodo-1,3-pentadiene