To summarize, the electronic structure and bonding in the elongated trigonal prisms like Bi6 2-have been known for about 30 years, and therefore introducing the 'new' concept of φ-aromaticity to characterize this family of inorganic cages seems unjustified. Moreover, none of the model Bi6 -q prisms (q = 0, 2, 4) and the clusters isolated by Peerless et al. can be truly regarded as aromatic. This is mainly because the trigonal prism topology actually prevents aromatic stabilization to exists in the three-dimensional {Bi6}-based clusters, a direct manifestation of which is lack of the triply degenerated MO energy levels. The term 'φ-aromaticity' should rather be used in the context of planar systems with laterally overlapping orbitals of the nfz3 type, which enable φ-type conjugation and at the same time do not impair the subsystem of σ-bonds. The transannular antibonding φ-type HOMO in Bi6 2-does not fulfill this requirement bringing destabilization and distortion rather than aromatic stabilization (neither global nor local).