Editing Chloroform (section)

==Structure and name==
The molecule adopts a [[tetrahedral molecular geometry]] with C<sub>3v</sub> [[symmetry group|symmetry]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry - Chloroform |url=http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~harding/IGOC/C/chloroform.html |access-date=2022-12-29 |website=www.chem.ucla.edu}}</ref> The chloroform molecule can be viewed as a [[methane]] molecule with three hydrogen atoms replaced with three chlorine atoms, leaving a single hydrogen atom.

The name "chloroform" is a [[portmanteau]] of ''terchloride'' (tertiary chloride, a trichloride) and ''formyle'', an obsolete name for the [[methylylidene]] radical (CH) derived from [[formic acid]].{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}