For an open-shell species, distinguish a singly occupied spatial orbital from a vacant spin orbital. Adding an electron to an oxygen molecule can fill the opposite-spin vacancy in a pi-star singly occupied molecular orbital even though the next completely empty spatial orbital is sigma-star.

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