In the photo chemical chlorination of $C H_{4}$ , which organic compound is formed as by product.

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The chemical reaction that is carried out between methane and chlorine in presence of sun light is called photochemical chlorination of methane.In this reaction $H C l$ is a byproduct.
$C H_{4} + C l_{2} \to C H_{3} C l + H C l$

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