Comment on "Density functional theory study of some structural and energetic properties of small lithium clusters" [J. Chem. Phys. 105, 9933 (1996)]

The Ionization Potentials of small Li_N clusters are calculated with a Shell Correction Method. They are used to illustrate that, within the jellium approximation, deformed cluster shapes provide an adequate description of the observed systematic size dependence of the properties of simple metal clusters. Such deformation effects were overlooked in the analysis of Gardet et al.