The plural form of acyloin; multiple organic compounds each containing both acyl and hydroxyl groups in their structures.
From 'acyloin' + '-s' (standard plural). Following regular English pluralization of the singular chemical compound name.
When chemists talk about acyloins as a class, they're discussing a whole family of reactions that became famous in the 1940s-1960s for creating complex ring systems used in synthesis!
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