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Please help me! This is due tomorrow!  :'(

I am building a chemical model using styrofoam balls and skewers of the molecule Psilocybin, but I can't seem to get the proper bond angles.

I understand tetrahedral, trigonal planar, and all those stuff, we have not covered all possible ones. Can someone please add the bond angles on one of the diagrams on google images. I have a hard copy of my rough work, but I don't know how to post it. I just need to verify it.

would all of the bonds be 120 degrees except for ch3 where it would have 109.5?
what about the phosphate ion?
How would the hydrogens bond, in the same plane, into the page, or out of the page?
what would the bond be in the pentagon with the nitrogen, does it matter that it's a nitrogen rather than a carbon (for cyclopentene), so the bond angle should be 108 degrees?



I am so lost.  ???



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