include any reaction condition conveniently adjusted e g that may be adjusted via utilization of equipment and or materials already present in the manufacturing footprint or that may be obtained at low resource cost examples of such conditions may include but are not limited to adjustments to flow rates molar ratios of reactants etc that being said the particular conditions employed at each step described herein are not critical and are readily determined by those of ordinary skill in the art what is important is that a feedstream comprising partially chlorinated methanes is catalyzed with a free radical catalyst to provide tetrachloromethane the feedstream may comprise either or both chloroform and methylene chloride and may further comprise methyl chloride and desirably does not comprise methane it is also advantageous that anhydrous hcl is produced further advantages may be provided in those embodiments in which the process is conducted in the liquid phase those of ordinary skill in the art will readily be able to determine suitable equipment for each step as well as the particular conditions at which the steps are desirably performed a schematic illustration of such a process is shown in fig1 as shown in fig1 in process 100 a feedstream comprising a mixture of chloromethane and methylene chloride is chlorinated in the liquid phase in reactor 102 to produce chloroform and tetrachloromethane the overhead stream from reactor 102 comprising excess chlorine hcl methyl chloride and methylene chloride is fed.