When Light Is Shined on a Mixture of Chlorine and Chloromethane

question 57

Essay

When light is shined on a mixture of chlorine and chloromethane, carbon tetrachloride is one of the components of the final reaction mixture. Propose a series of mechanistic steps which explain this observation.

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