In contrast, a previous DFT study has reported a slightly lower activation barrier for the Ce-Oe pathway. Such a disagreement could be attributed to the difference in the choice of the initial adsorbed geometry for the NEB calculations. In our calculations, we used the thermodynamically most stable geometry as the starting configuration. In general, the the reactant and the transition state geometries). We find that the dihedral angle remains almost unchanged for the Ce-Oe mechanism whereas a significant distortion of the ring is observed (as depicted by large change in the dihedral angles) for the Cc-Oe mechanism for all 4 molecules. Furthermore, we find that the computed activation barriers and reaction energies for the 4 molecules show a linear Bronsted-Evans-Polanyi (BEP) type scaling relationship, where more exothermic reactions result in lower activation barriers for both the reaction mechanisms as shown in Figure (a) and (b), respectively. Such correlations are useful to rapidly screen electrolyte molecules with desired electrochemical stability at the Li metal anode surface, since reaction energies (which can be calculated more readily than activation barriers) can then be used as descriptors to identify molecules with higher stability and more resistance to reductive decomposition.