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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2012, Article ID 650472, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/650472 Letter to the Editor Comments on “Homotopy Perturbation Method for Solving Reaction-Diffusion Equations” Afgan Aslanov Mathematics and Computing Department, Beykent University, 34396 Istanbul, Turkey Correspondence should be addressed to Afgan Aslanov, afganaslanov@.tr Received 7 February 2012; Accepted 15 April 2012 Copyright q 2012 Afgan Aslanov. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The paper entitled “Homotopy perturbation method for solving reaction diff ussion equation” contains some mistakes and misinterpretations along with a false conclusion. Applying the homotopy perturbation method HPM in an incorrect manner, the authors have drawn the false conclusion that this approach is efficient for reaction-diffusion type of equation. We show that HPM in the proposed form is not efficient in most cases, and hence, we will introduce the correct form of HPM. 1. Introduction In 1 Wang et al. proposed a new approach to apply the HPM for solving the reaction- diffusion problem. We can easily identify in 1 some mistakes, which can mislead the readers, as we show in Section 3 of this paper. The main difficulties in the application of HPM in proposed form are that the corresponding approximate solution is a divergent series on 0, 1 and the method of weighted residuals applied in an incorrect form. We consider a reaction-diffusion process governed by the equation u un 0, 0 x L, 1.1 with