Reactive Islands Kinetic Theory

Although the full -blown reactive islands theoretical prediction of the 

The correction a, which does not seem to have been as well discussed in the literature, is calculated according to the formula 

Implicit in the application of reactive islands theory, or in the application of other models of reaction dynamics that make use of the properties of a reaction separatrix, is the idea that the chaotic phase space may be considered to be completely structureless (within the restrictions imposed by the homoclinic/heteroclinic tangling of the separatrix manifolds). However, the presence of internal bottlenecks within one or more isomers may cause this approximation to break down.2 io3-i05,iu Accurate procedures for developing corrections to account for internal bottlenecks in two-dimensional systems have been developed. - 2 Unfortunately, much progress remains to be made toward developing quantitative procedures for dealing with internal bottlenecks in many-dimensional systems. 

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N. De Leon, /. Chem. Phys., 96, 285 (1991). Cylindrical Manifolds and Reactive Island Kinetic Theory in the Time Domain. 

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