Recently, Gorban (2021) analysed some kinetic paradoxes of the transition
state theory and proposed its revision that gave the ``entangled mass action
law'', in which new reactions were generated as an addition to the reaction
mechanism under consideration. These paradoxes arose due to the assumption of
quasiequilibrium between reactants and transition states.
In this paper, we provided a brief introduction to this theory, demonstrating
how the entangled mass action law equations can be derived in the framework of
the standard quasi steady state approximation in combination with the
quasiequilibrium generalized mass action law for an auxiliary reaction network
including reactants and intermediates. We also proved the basic physical
property (positivity) for these new equations, which was not obvious in the
original approach.Comment: Minor correction