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The title compound belongs to the family of benzo-annulated cyclobutenes. Perfluorination of 1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzene leads to essentially the same geometry as the parent hydrocarbon. Bond localization due to the Mills-Nixon effect in the direction of one of the Kekule forms cannot be found.