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The molecule that you describe, which would more accurately be written as CCl2F2 is the same shape as a methane molecule; the carbon is in the center, and it is surrounded by a symmetrical arrangement of two chlorine and two fluorine atoms, which are at the points of a tetrahedron.

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It is a halogen substituted alkene.

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Q: What is the molecular shape around the central atom in CF2Cl2?
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