Decomposition of octachloronaphthalene (CN-75) featuring fully substituted chlorines was investigated over asprepared Fe 3 O 4 micro/nanomaterial at 300°C. It conforms to pseudo-first-order kinetics with k obs = 0.10 min −1 as comparable to that of hexachlorobenzene and decachlorobiphenyl. Analysis of the products indicates that the degradation of CN-75 proceeds via two competitive hydrodechlorination and oxidation pathways. The onset of hydrodechlorination producing lower chlorinated naphthalenes (CNs) is more favored on α-position than β-position. Higher amounts of CN-73, CN-66/67, CN-52/60, and CN-8/11 isomers were found, while small content difference was detected within the tetrachloronaphthalene and trichloronaphthalene homologues, which might be attributed to lower energy principle and steric effects. The important hydrodechlorination steps, leading to CN-73 ≫ CN-74 in two heptachloronaphthalene isomers contrary to that in technical PCN-mixtures, were specified by calculating the charge of natural bond orbitals in CN-75 and the energy of two heptachloronaphthalene radicals. On the basis of the molecular electrostatic potential of CN-75, the nucleophilic O 2− , and eletrophilic O 2 − and O − , present on the Fe 3 O 4 surface, might attack the carbon atom and π electron cloud of naphthalene ring, producing naphthol species with Mars−van Krevelen mechanism, and formic and acetic acids.