“…Under preaveraging of the hydrodynamic interactions, eq 2.27 is not only exact, but the offdiagonal components of the friction tensor, f*y, are absent, and eq 2.28 simplifies to a previously known result. 2,9,10 However, it should be noted that the preaveraged result is not always an upper bound to the exact one. For complete neglect of the hydrodynamic interactions, the friction tensor is diagonal in j and k, £¡k = I, and eq 2.28 reduces further to a slightly more general form of the early result of Kramers8 and Debye.11 In Appendix A, using Kirkwood's approximate expressions for the diffusion tensor and segment velocities, we show that eq 2.27 and 2.28 are valid for all rigid bodies of revolution whose translational and rotational motions are not coupled.…”