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@AlexM. Its definitely relevant that the exponential is surjective for $\mathrm{SO}(2n, \mathbb{R})$ (if this was not true I definitely wouldn't be asking the question). I couldn't find anything on the wki page for the BCH formula that answered my questions about the special orthogonal case.