Values of 1.7 × 108 s−1 and 2.5 × 107 M−1 s−1 for kd, the unimolecular rate constant for decay, and kr, the rate constant for addition to cyclohexene, have been obtained for cyclohexenone. These indicate that this cyclenone decays somewhat faster and reacts significantly slower with the same substrate (in the same solvent) than does cyclopentenone. Evidence is adduced, from sensitization experiments and the phosphorescence quenching of a range of carbonyl compounds, that the reactive triplet and lowest triplet of cyclohexenone lie close together, if they are indeed not identical, and the energy of this triplet is in the region of 66–68 kcal/mole. This is higher than that indicated by photostationary state measurements. This latter method, applied to cyclenones, may be suspect, and triplet energies so derived subject to doubt (that of cyclopentenone included) or have a different significance from those obtained by other methods. Further attempts to demonstrate the existence of a lower, cycloadditively unreactive, triplet in cyclopentenone have been negative. It now seems far more likely that the original interpretation was in error, that the lowest energy triplet is near 73 kcal/mole, and that a special mechanism for quenching benzophenone triplets by ground state cyclopentenone exists. The evidence for other multiple reactive triplets is re-examined as is the evidence for the nature of the states involved.