Free radical & formal charge

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How we calculate formal charge for free radicals; I read somewhere, free radicals always have 0 FC. Is this true?
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aliss4 said:
How we calculate formal charge for free radicals; I read somewhere, free radicals always have 0 FC. Is this true?
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Yep.

There's only one electron in the p orbital, but the carbon has it all to itself. They're neutral.
 
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