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CCl4

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In industry, chloroform is produced by heating a mixture of chlorine and
either chloromethane or methane.[3] At 400500 C, a free radical halogenation occurs, converting
these precursors to progressively more chlorinated compounds:
CH4 + Cl2 CH3Cl + HCl
CH3Cl + Cl2 CH2Cl2 + HCl
CH2Cl2 + Cl2 CHCl3 + HCl
Chloroform undergoes further chlorination to yield carbon tetrachloride (CCl4):
CHCl3 + Cl2 CCl4 + HCl
The output of this process is a mixture of the four chloromethanes
(chloromethane, dichloromethane, chloroform, and carbon tetrachloride), which can
then be separated by distillation.[3]
Chloroform may also be produced on a small scale via the haloform
reaction between acetone and sodium hypochlorite:
3NaClO + C3H6O CHCl3 + 2NaOH + NaOCOCH3
"Chlorinated Hydrocarbons" in Ullmanns Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry

Carbon tetrachloride was originally synthesized by the French chemist Henri Victor Regnault in 1839
by the reaction of chloroform with chlorine,[3] but now it is mainly produced from methane:
CH4 + 4 Cl2 CCl4 + 4 HCl
The production often utilizes by-products of other chlorination reactions, such as from the
syntheses of dichloromethane and chloroform.