For correlation forms depending only on the scalar distances \( r_{ij} \) we can use the chain rule. Noting that
$$ \frac{\partial g_{ij}}{\partial x_j} = \frac{\partial g_{ij}}{\partial r_{ij}} \frac{\partial r_{ij}}{\partial x_j} = \frac{x_j - x_i}{r_{ij}} \frac{\partial g_{ij}}{\partial r_{ij}}, $$we arrive at
$$ \frac{1}{\Psi_C}\frac{\partial \Psi_C}{\partial x_k} = \sum_{i=1}^{k-1}\frac{1}{g_{ik}} \frac{\mathbf{r_{ik}}}{r_{ik}} \frac{\partial g_{ik}}{\partial r_{ik}} -\sum_{i=k+1}^{N}\frac{1}{g_{ki}}\frac{\mathbf{r_{ki}}}{r_{ki}}\frac{\partial g_{ki}}{\partial r_{ki}}. $$