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Are the angles other than the C-C-C angles in cyclopropane and cyclobutane still 109.5° as the acyclic compound, or what?

Muhammad
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The other bond angles can't all be $109.5°$ if the angles in the ring are different from that. Bond angles around an atom are not independent variables because the amount of space to be spanned is fixed.

Oscar Lanzi
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