Question

if I had ethane reacting with chlorine would the chlorine remove two hydrogens and form dicholorethane?
DrBob222
The information I can find speaks volumes about the formation of an alkyl halide from an alkane (such as chloretnane from ethane) but nothing is said about the addition of a second chlorine to make dichloroethane, or if it does add a second Cl atom, why it would go to a different C atom and not to the same C to which the first Cl attached itself.
Lena
so chloroethane and HCL?
DrBob222
Yes but I would write it as HCl.
CL doesn't exist.
Lena
oh ok, thanks :)