Comment on "Ab initio study: the potential energy curves and rovibrational spectrum of low-lying excited states of HCl+ cation' (Molecular Physics, 114:19, 2817-2823)

In a recent article, Y. Liu, X. Cheng, H. Cheng, J. Cheng and X. Song [Mol. Phys., 114:19, 2817-2823] report on the calculation of potential energy curves and the derivation of spectroscopic constants and line intensities for the lowest energy electronic states of HCl+. There are several shortcomings in the article; the most notable being the incorrect ordering of the (2)(3/2) and (/2) state energies, erroneous selection rules, which lead to the absence of a Q-branch in their predicted spectra, incorrect Holn-London factors, and a missing appendix.