But researchers now report a way to make the pharmaceutical compound ... an array of chemical building blocks for plastics, ...

This figure shows how acetaminophen (APAP) is broken down into a reactive compound (NAPQI) that binds covalently to proteins at cysteine residues. While this effect is well known, it does not ...

Indeed, one compound turned out to be a ... an industrial chemical. Their research had nothing to do with acetaminophen, but they came upon a paper by another group of scientists who had been ...