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There should be 4 chiral centres (circled for reference)
Each chiral centre (usually carbon) should have 4 different groups attached to it so the key would be to look for atoms with Y shaped arrangements around it (eg the leftmost circled one) or X shaped arrangements around it. (there is an X shaped arrangement here as well but that has 2 methyl groups and thus does not count)
When the atom is in a ring, read the arrangements both clockwise and anti clockwise. If the order of atoms both ways are the same, the atom is not chiral. If the order of atoms differ from reading it both ways, it is chiral.
Each chiral centre (usually carbon) should have 4 different groups attached to it so the key would be to look for atoms with Y shaped arrangements around it (eg the leftmost circled one) or X shaped arrangements around it. (there is an X shaped arrangement here as well but that has 2 methyl groups and thus does not count)
When the atom is in a ring, read the arrangements both clockwise and anti clockwise. If the order of atoms both ways are the same, the atom is not chiral. If the order of atoms differ from reading it both ways, it is chiral.
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