How a Chemistry Student created ‘The Mother of Satan’: A Deadly Explosive (TATP)

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: The chemistry of how a student accidentally created TATP or triacetate triperoxide, known as ‘The Mother of Satan’, one of the most powerful and deadly explosives known to man. It is known to be approximately 80% as strong as TNT and even more sensitive to impact or shock. This video is created to aid undergraduate and post A Level chemistry students to learn Organic Chemistry mechanisms. This video covers: Markovnikov’s rule, homolysis, radicals, peroxide bonds, electrophilic addition and regioselectivity. CHAPTERS Intro - 0:00 Peroxides - 0:47 Hydrogen Peroxide - 1:36 Homolysis - 1:47 Radical Reactions and Regioselectivity- 2:42 HBr Alkene Addition - 3:20 Cation Stability - 3:45 Markovnikov’s Rule - 3:57 Electrophiles or Nucleophilic - 5:00 TATP Mechanism - 5:40 Case Study Summary - 6:44 References: Chemistry LibreTexts (Organic_Chemistry)/Polymers/Hydrogen_Bromide_and_Aklenes:_The_Peroxide_Effect (Accessed November 2023) Chemistry World (Accessed November 2023) University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Accessed November 2023) The future of Things (Accessed November 2023) First Responders Tool Box (TATP) (Accessed November 2023) Science Direct (Accessed November 2023) Chemistry LibreTexts (Moore_et_al.)/11:_Reactions_in_Aqueous_Solutions/:_Substances_Which_Are_Both_Oxidizing_and_Reducing_Agents (Accessed November 2023) Scholarly Community Encyclopedia #:~:text=H2O2, a,and electrophile in chemical reactions (Accessed November 2023) Video Clips from Pixabay Video Clip from BBC Four: “Explosions: How we shook the world“