Using a single-particle description of 6.7 Li and Woods-Saxon generated wave functions for 58 Ni matter density distribution, the diagonal and transition densities are calculated. Folding these densities with the M3Y effective interaction, the coupling and diagonal potentials are obtained. Coupled channel calculations for 6'TLi on 58 Ni at bombarding energies in a range from 12 to 74 MeV are performed. It is shown that the predictions of the coupled channel calculations are consistent with those of optical model calculations using folded potentials renormalized by a factor 0.6 in the entire range of energies.In recent years the scattering of light heavy ions such as 6'7Li and 9Be have received considerable interest. This is due to the failure of the double folding potential [1] obtained from an effective nucleon-nucleon interaction [2], which have to be renormalized by a factor around 0.6 in order to fit the elastic scattering data for these nuclei.This anomaly has been attributed to break-up effects which become important due to the low break-up threshold of these nuclei [3]. This idea has been confirmed by calculations describing 6Li and 7Li, respectively, as (a + a) and (a + t) systems. It is found that to reproduce the elastic scattering data of 6'7Li in terms of the optical potentials of the target with the fragments of the projectile, the break-up states must be considered. The cluster model is also successful in explaining the behavior of polarized projectiles. It is shown [4] that the coupling effects between the clusterdescribed excited states have a very important effect on the tensor analyzing powers, even at very low energy. Of particular interest is the work of Sakuragi et al. [5], who use a detailed cluster description of 6Li, discretizing the continuum of break-up states in several bins for each relevant partial wave. The diagonal and transition potentials are obtained from an effective nucleonnucleon interaction convoluted with the target density and the corresponding projectile diagonal and transition density. It is shown that the main contribution on the elastic scattering comes from the resonances which affect mainly the real potential.Recently we have developed a single-particle description of 7Li [6], assuming a (0s)4(0p) 3 configuration in a single-particle well for the relevant states of 7Li. The different negative parity states of this nucleus are obtained by diagonalizing a residual hamiltonian, and the diagonal and 0370-2693/85/$ 03.30