The reductive dehalogenation of hexachloroethane (CzCLj), carbon tetrachloride (CC14), and bromoform (CHBr3) was examined at 50 "C in aqueous solutions containing either (1) 500 pM of 2,6-anthrahydroquinone disulfonate (AHQDS), (2) 250 pM Fe2+, or (3) 250 pM HS-. The pH ranged from 4.5 to 11.5 for AHQDS solutions and was 7.2 in the Fez+ solutions and 7.8 in the HS-solutions. The observed disappearance of C&16 in the presence of AHQDS was pseudo-first-order and fit k'ccb = ko[A(OH)zI + kdA(0H)O-I + kz[A(O)~~-l whereA(OH)2, A(0H)O-, and A(0)n2-represent the concentrations of the three forms of the AHQDS in solution. The values of ko, kl, and kz were -0,0.031, and 0.24 M-l s-l, respectively. The addition of 25 mg of C/L of humic acid or organic matter extracted from Borden aquifer solids to aqueous solutions containing 250 I~.M HS-or Fe2+ increased the reduction rate by factors of up to 10. The logarithms of the rate constants for the disappearance of CzCl6 and C C 4 in seven different experimental systems were significantly correlated; log k'cc14 = 0.64 log k'czc~ -0.83 with r2 = 0.80. The observed trend in reaction rates of C&l6 > CCl4 > CHBr3 is consistent with a decreasing trend in one-electron reduction potentials.