# acyloin

> class of chemical compounds; an α-hydroxy ketone in which the carbonyl group and the hydroxy group are linked by a carbon bearing one hydrogen and one organyl group

**Wikidata**: [Q345024](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q345024)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acyloin)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/acyloin


## References

1. Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)
2. ChEBI release 2021-07-01
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013