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Double Ionization to CO2 Produces Molecular Oxygen: A Roaming Mechanism

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Pith's one-line read Electron impacts on CO2 can produce O2+ through a roaming oxygen atom, a route this paper identifies in the triplet state of the CO2 dication and ties to the 6.4 eV kinetic-energy-release peak.

desk verdict First credible roaming route to O2+ from CO2 2+ with a good KER match, but the key PES is single-reference DFT and needs a multireference check. read the letter →

arxiv 2509.05626 v1 pith:6YIRQWGA submitted 2025-09-06 physics.atm-clus physics.chem-ph

Qibo Ma , Xintai Hao , Jiaqi Zhou , Xiaorui Xue , Qingrui Zeng , Peng Li , Lei Wang , Xueguang Ren This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords roamingmechanismmolecularoxygenformationCO2dicationelectron-impactdoubleionizationkineticenergyreleasepotentialsurfacecoincidencemomentumspectroscopyatmosphericchemistry
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The reading

This paper reports that double ionization of CO2 by 200 eV electron impact can form O2+ through a mechanism never before identified for this molecule. The authors measure the projectile energy loss together with the C+ + O2+ fragment pair, and use electronic-structure and classical-trajectory calculations to reconstruct what happens on the potential-energy surface. On the triplet state of $CO2^{2}$+, one C–O bond breaks but the leaving oxygen atom does not have enough energy to escape; it wanders over a flat region of the surface, recombines with the remaining C–O fragment as a C–O–O2+ intermediate, and then dissociates into C+ + O2+. They assign the low-energy peak at about 6.4 eV in the kinetic-energy-release spectrum to this roaming pathway and the higher peak at about 7.6 eV to the previously known bond-rearrangement route through a triangular intermediate. If correct, this gives a concrete abiotic route to molecular oxygen in CO2-rich atmospheres and interstellar environments where free electrons are abundant.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the flat triplet potential-energy surface of $CO2^{2}$+ in the coordinates that connect the roaming O atom to the C–O fragment. The paper maps this surface as a two-dimensional potential as a function of the C–O–O angle and the O–O distance; along the roaming path from TS1 through IN1 and TS2 to IN2 and TS3, the stationary points all lie energetically close and below the initially populated 3Πu state, which is what makes the wandering barrierless. The trajectory version is a classical Coulomb-explosion model that starts from the computed TS3 (triplet) and TS2 (singlet) structures and converts their vibrational and angular widths into KER distributions.

What would settle it

A direct test would be a high-level multireference calculation of the triplet $CO2^{2}$+ surface: if the lowest barrier along the C–O–O path lies above the energy of the initially populated 3Πu state, the pathway is not barrierless and cannot be the source of the 6.4 eV peak. Experimentally, a KER spectrum measured from a $CO2^{2}$+ state selected by threshold double photoionization, or over a range of electron impact energies, that lacks the 6.4 eV peak while retaining the 7.6 eV peak would also falsify the roaming assignment.

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Core claim

The central discovery is a new roaming mechanism for O2+ formation from the $CO2^{2}$+ dication. After double ionization populates the triplet $X^{3}$Σ_g^- state of $CO2^{2}$+, the molecule distorts through TS1 to a metastable bent intermediate; the second transition state cleaves one C–O bond, but the released O atom lacks kinetic energy to separate. Instead it roams across a nearly flat potential-energy region, keeping the O–O distance roughly constant while the C–O–O angle opens, and the atom recombines at a reactive site to form a C–O–O2+ isomer (IN2). From there the system crosses a small barrier TS3 and dissociates into C+ + O2+. The energy difference between TS3 and the products is 6.41 eV, matching the low-energy KER peak, and the classical trajectory calculations reproduce the two-peak structure of the measured KER spectrum. The paper therefore claims that the 6.4 eV peak is the fingerprint of triplet-state roaming, while the 7.6 eV peak is the fingerprint of singlet-state bond rearrangement through the triangular intermediate.

Load-bearing premise

The 6.4 eV peak is assigned to roaming because of a calculated triplet surface in which the wandering oxygen atom is never trapped behind a barrier higher than where it starts; if a more accurate electronic-structure method found such a barrier, or found the surface less flat, the roaming assignment would collapse.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The low-energy KER peak at about 6.4 eV is assigned to a barrierless roaming pathway on the triplet CO2^2+ surface, and the high-energy peak at about 7.6 eV to the singlet bond-rearrangement pathway through a triangular CO2^2+ intermediate.
  • The measured branching ratio between the two KER peaks is roughly 55% to 45%, so the roaming route contributes at least as much O2+ as the previously known rearrangement route at 200 eV electron impact.
  • Because the 6.4 eV peak agrees with earlier strong-field laser and ion-collision experiments, the roaming pathway may be a general feature of CO2^2+ fragmentation, not special to electron impact.
  • In a CO2-rich planetary atmosphere, free electrons with energies near 200 eV can drive CO2 → C+ + O2+; subsequent electron recombination or charge exchange converts O2+ into neutral O2, adding an abiotic oxygen source to atmospheric models.
  • The double-peak structure observed after core excitation is consistent with both pathways originating from Auger decay, meaning the roaming mechanism can be expected whenever CO2^2+ is formed in the triplet state.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Beyond the paper's explicit claims, the same roaming logic should apply to other linear triatomic dications such as OCS2+, CS2+, or N2O2+ if their triplet surfaces have similarly flat regions; ion-ion coincidence experiments on those molecules would be a direct test.
  • The branching ratio may depend on impact energy: higher-energy electrons can populate different dication states and change the relative yield of the 6.4 eV and 7.6 eV peaks, something the present 200 eV measurement does not address.
  • If the roaming intermediate C–O–O2+ is long-lived enough, it might be observable spectroscopically or as a three-body channel (C+ + O+ + O) when the O–O coordinate crosses the barrier; searching for such events in the coincidence data would test the flat-region picture.
  • The atmospheric implication is stronger than the paper states: because double ionization can be driven by photoelectrons and secondary electrons as well as direct impact, the roaming route could contribute in regions where the 42 eV threshold is exceeded, not only at the 200 eV energy used here.
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Summary. The paper reports an electron-impact double-ionization study of CO2 using a reaction-microscope setup, isolating the C+ + O2+ two-body channel by triple coincidence detection of the two fragment ions and the scattered electron. Projectile energy-loss spectra identify the 3Πu dication state as the relevant initial state, and the measured kinetic energy release (KER) spectrum shows two peaks at about 6.4 eV and 7.6 eV. M062X/aug-cc-pVTZ potential energy surface calculations are used to propose two pathways: a singlet bond-rearrangement path through a triangular intermediate, assigned to the high-KER peak, and a triplet roaming path through a C-O-O intermediate, assigned to the low-KER peak. Classical Coulomb-explosion trajectory simulations with hand-set FWHM widths are presented as supporting the two-peak structure. The authors conclude that a new roaming mechanism produces O2+ from CO2^2+ and argue for its relevance to atmospheric and interstellar chemistry.

Significance. If the assignment is correct, this is the first demonstration of a roaming mechanism in the formation of O2+ from a doubly charged triatomic dication, extending the roaming paradigm to Coulomb-explosion-like fragmentation and providing a concrete abiotic pathway for molecular oxygen production in CO2-rich environments. The experimental design is a strength: the coincidence measurement directly links the projectile energy loss to the C+ + O2+ channel, and the predicted KER centers come from independent PES energy differences rather than from fits to the KER data. The trajectory widths, however, are not predictions in the same sense, and the central mechanistic claim rests on the accuracy of a single-reference DFT surface for an open-shell dication in a flat, near-degenerate region. The paper is scientifically interesting but needs additional electronic-structure validation and quantification of uncertainties before the roaming assignment can be considered established.

major comments (3)
  1. [Fig. 3b and the paragraph preceding Fig. 4] The central assignment of the 6.4 eV KER peak to a barrierless triplet roaming pathway rests entirely on the M062X/aug-cc-pVTZ potential energy surface, specifically on all TSs lying below the initial 3Πu state and on the TS3-to-products energy difference of 6.41 eV. For an open-shell dication with stretched C-O bonds and an incipient O-O bond, single-reference DFT is a recognized accuracy risk: self-interaction error can artificially flatten or steepen near-degenerate regions and shift transition-state energies by several tenths of an eV. I request a benchmark of the triplet path (at least TS1, IN1, TS2, IN2, TS3, and the C+ + O2+ asymptote, plus a scan along the roaming coordinate) using a multireference method such as CASPT2 or MRCI+Q, with a clear statement of how the 6.41 eV value and the barrierless character change. Without this, the agreement with the measured 6.4 eV peak could be fortuitous.
  2. [Fig. 4 and the trajectory-model paragraph] The classical trajectory/Coulomb-explosion comparison does not independently validate the PES: the FWHM parameters (0.3 Å in bond lengths, 30° in angles) are set by hand, so the widths and shapes of the calculated KER distributions are not predictions. In addition, the computed high-energy peak center (7.06 eV) differs from the measured 7.6 eV peak by 0.54 eV, and the manuscript does not discuss this discrepancy. The statement that the calculated distributions 'response well to the double-peak structure' should be supported either by a quantitative measure of agreement or by a sensitivity analysis showing that the conclusion is robust to the FWHM choices. At minimum, report how the computed KER distributions vary when the FWHM values are changed within a reasonable range.
  3. [Fig. 4 and the Gaussian-fitting discussion] The 55%:45% branching ratio and the two peak centers are extracted by Gaussian fitting without reporting uncertainties, and the experimental spectra in Figs. 2 and 4 are shown without error bars. Please provide fitting errors and a measure of systematic uncertainty (for example, from binning choices and background treatment). The assignment also implicitly assumes that only the singlet and triplet channels contribute to the KER spectrum; the text should state this assumption and justify it, since sequential fragmentation or contributions from other electronic states could populate the same C+ + O2+ final channel.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Abstract and main text] The phrase 'Mar's atmosphere' should read 'Mars's atmosphere' or 'the Martian atmosphere'.
  2. [Fig. 1 and surrounding text] The TOF correlation map in Fig. 1 is accompanied by garbled axis tick labels in the manuscript text (e.g., '3 .84 .04 .24 .4...'); this must be fixed for readability.
  3. [PES paragraph preceding Fig. 3] Typographical errors: 'ab initiocalculations' should be 'ab initio calculations', and 'roaming reactions has been established' should be 'roaming reactions have been established'.
  4. [Fig. 3] The numerical labels on the energy axis of Fig. 3 are difficult to read and several quoted values (e.g., '37.303', '37.004', '0.624', '0.674') are not explained in the caption; the caption should explicitly define the energy zero and every labeled quantity.
  5. [Reference [16]] The title of reference [16] has garbled subscripts ('o+2 production coming from co2 single-event electron impact'); please ensure consistent formatting of chemical formulas in the reference list.
  6. [Supplemental Material references] The main text repeatedly refers to the Supplemental Material for details of the TOF analysis, the trajectory method, and the IRC verification, but the supplement is not included with the preprint; the main-text description should be sufficiently self-contained for a reader to evaluate the methods.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the predicted KER peak positions derive from independently computed PES energy differences and transition-state geometries, not from fits to the measured spectrum.

full rationale

The paper's central link between theory and experiment is the comparison of the measured KER peaks (about 6.4 and 7.6 eV) with ab initio energy differences: the TS3-to-products difference of 6.41 eV for the triplet roaming path and the TS2-to-products difference of 7.06 eV for the singlet bond-rearrangement path. These values come from M062X/aug-cc-pVTZ potential-energy-surface calculations with CCSD zero-point-energy corrections and IRC verification, not from fitting to the coincidence data. The classical trajectory model uses transition-state geometries from the same PES as inputs and sets the vibrational/angular FWHM widths by hand; the widths affect the widths of the calculated KER bars but do not set their centers, so the peak positions remain independent predictions. The small number of hand-set FWHM parameters does not reduce the predicted KER peak centers to the measured values. Self-citations [25,36,37] are methodological or serve as examples of roaming in other systems and are not load-bearing for the new roaming mechanism. The identification of the initial CO2^2+ state is anchored to external references and previously measured ionization thresholds. Any concern about the accuracy of the single-reference DFT surface for the open-shell dication is a correctness risk, not circularity, because the theoretical prediction is not constructed from the experimental output it aims to explain.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new particles, forces, conserved quantities, or dimensions are introduced. The C-O-O2+ intermediate and the roaming O atom are chemically plausible species supported by the PES calculations, not invented entities without independent handles.

free parameters (2)
  • FWHM of C-O and O-O bond lengths = 0.3 Å
    Chosen by hand in the Coulomb explosion model to compute KER distributions; this width affects the spread of predicted peaks but not their centers.
  • FWHM of ∠C-O-O and ∠O-C-O angles = 30°
    Chosen by hand for the same trajectory calculation; this angular width is not derived from experimental data or from a dynamical simulation.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The M062X/aug-cc-pVTZ potential energy surfaces, with CCSD/aug-cc-pVTZ zero-point corrections, are accurate enough to determine the relative energies of the transition states and intermediates in the two fragmentation pathways.
    The KER peak assignment is based on computed energy differences of 6.41 eV and 7.06 eV, but no higher-level multireference benchmark is provided for the dication, which may have multireference character.
  • domain assumption The Coulomb explosion model, using Gaussian distributions of the transition-state bond lengths and angles, adequately describes the kinetic energy release for the C+ + O2+ fragmentation.
    The model assumes a purely electrostatic repulsion picture and uses input FWHM values chosen by hand rather than derived from the PES or from scattering dynamics.
  • ad hoc to paper The measured KER spectrum for the C+ + O2+ channel is composed solely of the two identified pathways (singlet bond rearrangement and triplet roaming), with no significant contribution from other electronic states or sequential mechanisms.
    The two-peak Gaussian decomposition assumes exactly two contributing pathways; the paper does not quantitatively exclude other dication states or non-sequential processes.
  • domain assumption The initial CO2^2+ state populated in the experiment is the 3Πu state, reached by direct double ionization or Auger decay, and internal conversion to the triplet PES is efficient.
    The assignment of the roaming pathway to the triplet state relies on the energy-loss onset near 42 eV and on prior spectroscopy; the data are not direct evidence of the initial state symmetry.

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We report a combined experimental and theoretical study on the formation of O2+ by electronimpact double ionization and fragmentation of carbon dioxide (CO2) molecule. Through fragment ions and electron coincidence momentum imaging, we determine unambiguously the ionization mechanism by measuring the projectile energy loss in association with the C+ + O2+ channel. Further potential energy and trajectory calculations enable us to elucidate the dynamical details of this fragmentation process, in which a bond rearrangement pathway is found to proceed via the structural deformation to a triangular intermediate. Moreover, we demonstrate a new roaming pathway for formation of O2+ from CO22+, in which a frustrated C-O bond cleavage leaves the O atom without sufficient energy to escape. The O atom then wanders around varied configuration spaces of the flat potential energy regions and forms a C-O-O2+ intermediate prior to the final products C+ + O2+. Considering the large quantities of free electrons in interstellar space, the processes revealed here are expected to be significant and should be incorporated into atmospheric evolution models.

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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Projectile energy loss spectrum of the C [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Measured two ions TOF correlation map of the two [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Calculated reaction pathways with the selected TSs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Measured KER spectrum for the C [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]

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