Solution

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Pyrazine belongs to , the D2h point group. With the printed axes, its three twofold axes are ; it also has an inversion centre and the three coordinate mirror planes. The nitrogen atoms occupy sites 1 and 4 on the axis. Interchanging carbon and nitrogen is not a molecular symmetry operation, so the sixfold benzene symmetry is lost.

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