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The folded benzvalene cage has one twofold axis and two mirror planes containing it. The double-bonded edge distinguishes it from cages having higher rotational symmetry; it has neither an inversion centre nor a horizontal mirror perpendicular to the twofold axis. Its molecular point group is $C_{2 v}$ , the C2v molecular point group.

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