“…Another alternative reaction was proposed in the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare -Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (Italy) by considering the ( 18 O, 16 O) reaction, once the 18 O nucleus can be considered as composed by an inert core of 16 O and two valence neutrons. In this sense, some reactions were measured considering the 18 O nucleus as projectile at 84 MeV incident energy, and 12,13 C [1, 2], 16 O [3,4], 28 Si [5] and 64 Ni [6] as target to analyze the feasibility of the ( 18 O, 16 O) reaction as substitute of the (t,p) one, and then to investigate the role of the pairing correlation of both transferred neutrons in the transfer reaction cross sections obtained performing coupled reaction channel calculations [7]. The 12 C( 18 O, 16 O) 14 C reaction has experimentally shown, similarly to (t,p), the feasibility in populating the twoneutron configuration of the 14 C nucleus.…”