A pulse radiolysis technique was used to study the ultraviolet absorption spectra of CCl₃CClH and CCl₃-CClHO₂ radicals, the kinetics of the self-reaction of CCl₃CClHO₂ radicals, and the kinetics of the reactions of CCl₃CClHO₂ with NO and NO₂ in the gas phase at 296 K. At 240 nm, σ(CCl₃CClH) = (303 ± 35) × 10^-20, and at 250 nm, σ(CCl₃CClHO₂) = (288 ± 48) × 10^-20 cm² molecule^-1. The observed rate constant for the self-reaction of CCl₃CClHO₂ radicals was (5.0 ± 1.2) × 10^-12 cm³ molecule^-1 s^-1. The rate constants for reactions of CCl₃CClHO₂ radicals with NO and NO₂ were k₃ > 9.0 × 10^-12 and k₄ = (8.9 ± 2.6) × 10^-12 cm³ molecule^-1 s^-1, respectively. A long path length Fourier transform infrared technique was used to show that at 295 K in 700 Torr total pressure of air 76 ± 3% of CCl₃CClHO radicals decornpose via C-C bond scission and 24 ± 3% undergo three-center intramolecular HCl elimination. As part of this work rate constants for the reaction of F and Cl atoms with CCl₃CH₂Cl were determined to be (6.4 ± 1.2) × 10^-12 and (5.7 ± 1.0) × 10^-14 cm³ molecule^-1 s^-1, respectively. The results are discussed with respect to the atmospheric chemistry of tetrachloroethane.