Patent ID: 8912371

Claim:
A method of producing a chlorinated hydrocarbon having 3 carbon atoms, comprising a conversion step for converting a chloropropane represented by the following formula (1) into a chloropropane represented by the following formula (2) by reacting said chloropropane represented by the formula (1) with chlorine in the presence of anhydrous aluminum chloride at a temperature from 0° C. to 40° C., CCl 3 —CCl (2-m) H m —CCl (3-n) H n (1), wherein, in the above formula (1), m is 1 or 2, and n is an integer of 0 to 3, CCl 3 —CCl (3-m) H (m-1) —CCl (3-n) H n (2), wherein, in the above formula (2), m and n are the same integers as in the formula (1), respectively.