Is your point that the “excited states not normally seen” are abnormal? that therefor there are unknown/known side effects not mentioned in the article.
Or is all O2 interaction considered a good thing?
(I’ve read that both oxidents and anti oxidents are good in their proper ratios. The question is does MB bend down oxidents or anti oxidents or neither. For example does a cold mean that you have too many oxidents in the system. That therefor MB’s benefits are that it is an an anti oxident? Or the reverse.
Ping
MB and oxygen make triplet O2 which enables
both antibonding orbitals and the generation,
with an electron, of O2-. (oxygen free radical).
The latter has antimicrobial and other effects.
normally O2 only generates singlet oxygen which will
not pick up the extra electron.
(there were some patents on this in the ‘70s).