Noncollinear Geometries

Another obvious defect of both the RLM and BCRLM models is that they assume a collinearly dominated reaction intermediate. While the potential energy surfaces for many collision systems do favor collinear geometries, there are of course many reactions which do not. Extensions of the BCRLM model are therefore needed to treat noncollinear systems, perhaps along the lines defined by the Carrington and Miller reaction surface Hamiltonian theory. 

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