. 62, 899 (1984).The abstraction of hydrogen/deuterium from CH,CHDCI by ground state chlorine atoms produced photolytically from C12 has been investigated at temperatures betwen 280 and 368 K. The relative rates for the internal competition CH3CHDCI + C1+ CH3CDCI + HCl kH + CH3CHCI + DCI kD are found to conform to an Arrhenius rate law:These data, taken together with the external competition results for the C2HsCI/CH3CHDC1 system, in conjunction with the competitive results using CH4 as a primary reference, have yielded the rate constants (cm3 s-I):The relatively weak primary kinetic isotope effect, kH/kD, decreases with increasing temperature from 1 .8S5 at 280 K to 1.66 at 365 K. The results are compared with those obtained based on the BEBO method. While both the trend and the magnitude of the kinetic isotope effect are satisfactorily predicted, the activation energy is not. Introduction In a recent paper from this laboratory (1) the photochlorination of gaseous ethyl chloride and ethyl chloride-d, was examined. Kinetic data on the hydrogen and deuterium atom abstraction by photochemically generated chlorine atoms were obtained, and the magnitude of the overall kinetic isotope effect was established. In the present work these studies are extended to the photochlorination of ethyl chloride-1-d,. Our aim is twofold: firstly, to determine accurately the primary kinetic isotope effect and the absolute rate parameters by way of a suitable reference reaction, and, secondly, to compare these