Atmospheric Oxidation of Methyl Chloride Methylene Chloride, and Chloroform

Chlorinated atmospheric pollutants are presently receiving much attention because of expected chlorine-ozone interactions in the stratosphere.1,2 The fully halogenated pollutants,such as CCI3F, CCl2F2, and CCl4, have no known removal processes that operate in the troposphere. These compounds are accumulating on a global scale, their atmospheric mixing ratios having reached about 2 X 10-10 for CCl2F2,1.2 X 10-10 for CCl3F, and 9 X 10-11 for CCl4.3-5