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The treatment of hydrocarbons with chlorine in the presence of an initiator involves the substitution of a C-H by a C-Cl.

The chlorination of a hydrocarbon A (C₆H₁₄) gives a complex mixture from which can be separated five different compounds with the formula C₆H₁₃Cl. On further study it is observed that three of these five compounds are actually racemic mixtures.