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What happens when `CHCl_3` reacts with oxygen in presence of sunlight?

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Chloroform is slowly oxidized by air in the presence of sunlight to form poisonous phosgene gas
`CHCl_3+1/2O_2overset("sunlight") to underset("Phosgene")(COCl_2)+HCl`
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