The kinetics and products of the homogeneous gas-phase reactions of the OH radical with the chloroethenes were investigated at 298 ? 2 K and atmospheric pressure. Using a relative rate technique and ethane as a scavenger for the chlorine atoms produced in these OH radical reactions, rate constants (in units of lo-'' cm3 molecule.'s-'j of 8.11 ? 0.24, 2.38 ? 0.14, and 1.80 ? 0.03 were obtained for 1,l-dichloroethene, cis-l,2-dichloroethene and trans-l,2-dichloroethene, respectively. Under these conditions, the major products observed by long pathlength FT-IR absorption spectroscopy were HCHO and HC(OjC1 from vinyl chloride; HC(OjC1 from cis-and trans-1,2-dichloroethene; HCHO and COCI, from 1,l-dichloroethene; HC(OiC1 and COCI, from trichloroethene; and COC1, from tetrachloroethene. In the absence of a C1 atom scavenger, significant yields of the chloroacetyl chlorides, CH,Cl,-,C(O)Cl, were observed from 1,l-dichloro-, trichloro-and tetrachloroethene, indicating that these products resulted from reactions involving chlorine atoms. The yields of all of these products are reported and the mechanisms of these gas-phase reactions discussed. In addition, OH radical reaction rate constants were redetermined, in the presence of a Cl atom scavenger, for cis-and trans-1,3-dichloropropene and 3-chloro-2-chloromethyl-1-propene, being (in units of 10 cm' molecule-' s-') 8.45 f 0.41, 14.4 t 0.8, and 33.5 -t 3.0. respectively.