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Moshe Rakhman

Are the C1 and C3 carbons of cis 1-bromo-3-chloro-cyclobutane chiral?

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They are achiral. If you take the mirror image (first picture) and rotate 180 degrees (second picture), you can overlay them. Images made with Avogadro

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