  In a recently published article Mayo et al.[Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29,
5787] presented the ground state crystal structures of various experimentally
unknown Li-Sn intermetallic compounds at ambient pressure (~0 GPa) and 0 K
temperature using ab-initio random structure searching method (AIRSS) with
high-throughput screening from the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
(ICSD).\cite{AIRSS} In their study, besides the experimentally known phases of
Li-Sn such as, $\mathrm{Li_{2}Sn_{5}}$
($\mathrm{P4/mbm}$),$\mathrm{Li_{1}Sn_{1}}$ ($\mathrm{P2/m}$,
$\mathrm{I4_{1}/amd}$), $\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{3}}$ ($\mathrm{P2_{1}/m}$),
$\mathrm{Li_{5}Sn_{2}}$ ($\mathrm{R\bar{3}m}$), $\mathrm{Li_{13}Sn_{5}}$
($\mathrm{P\bar{3}m1}$), $\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{2}}$ ($\mathrm{Cmmm}$), and
$\mathrm{Li_{17}Sn_{4}}$ ($\mathrm{F\bar{4}3m}$), Mayo et al. also reported two
previously unknown stable phases for Li-Sn such as,
$\mathrm{Li_{8}Sn_{3}}$-$\mathrm{R\bar{3}m}$ and
$\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{2}}$-$\mathrm{P\bar{1}}$ along with several Li-Sn metastable
phases ($\mathrm{Li_{1}Sn_{2}}$, $\mathrm{Li_{2}Sn_{3}}$,
$\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{9}}$, $\mathrm{Li_{3}Sn_{2}}$, $\mathrm{Li_{5}Sn_{3}}$,
$\mathrm{Li_{2}Sn}_{1}$, $\mathrm{Li_{3}Sn_{1}}$, $\mathrm{Li_{4}Sn_{1}}$,
$\mathrm{Li_{5}Sn_{1}}$, and $\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{1}}$) which lie within 20
meV/atom from the convex hull tie-line. However, while going through their
article, we noticed a significant inconsistency and contradictions in their
results. Moreover, a one-to-one comparison with our published
results\cite{Sen@2017} revealed a disagreement in the symmetry of
$\mathrm{Li_{3}Sn_{1}}$, $\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{2}}$, $\mathrm{Li_{4}Sn_{1}}$,
$\mathrm{Li_{5}Sn_{1}}$, and $\mathrm{Li_{7}Sn_{1}}$ discussed by Mayo et al.}
