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Chlorine reacts with hydroxide ion for form hypochlorite and chloride.

The reaction is a disproportionation because chlorine goes from 0 to +1 and to –1.

The reaction must be carried out at low temperature of the hypochloride will disproportionate further, to ClO3– and more Cl–.
Cl2
  +  
[OH]–
         
[ClO]–
  +  
Cl–
  +  
H+
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: AS
Disproportionation
Substitution: Nucleophilic Second Order

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