The neutral reaction products formed during electron beam irradiation of carbon tetrachloride/water (ice) films have been studied as a function of the film's initial CCl 4 : H 2 O ratio using a combination of reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. When the initial CCl 4 : H 2 O ratio was high, the dominant reaction products in the film were C 2 Cl 4 and a partially chlorinated carbonaceous film (CCl x ) formed as the result of carbon-carbon coupling reactions in the film. In these CCl 4 rich films, chlorine is partitioned mainly into the gas phase while CO is the dominant carbon-containing gas phase species. As the CCl 4 : H 2 O ratio decreases, CO 2 becomes an increasingly important reaction product at the expense of species generated from carbon-carbon coupling reactions, while chlorine is increasingly partitioned as HCl in the film, producing H 3 O + and Cl À . The production of both H 2 and O 2 from electron stimulated reactions associated with H 2 O are suppressed in CCl 4 /H 2 O films, although oxygen is more efficiently quenched in the presence of CCl 4 .