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L. E. SNYDER, A. MEYERTHOLEN, J. M. VEAL, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801; Y.-J. KUAN, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, and IAA, Taipei, Taiwan; I. DE PATER, J. R. FORSTER, M. C. H. WRIGHT, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; L. M. WOODNEY, M. F. A'HEARN, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742-2421; AND P. PALMER, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago.

Cometary molecules specifically targeted for observation with the BIMA Array during the 1997 apparition of comet Hale-Bopp included HCN, HCO⁺, and CS, but because the BIMA Array has a very flexible, wideband spectrometer, many other species had transitions in the bandpass which could be observed simultaneously with the target molecules. We discuss the results of these ``search'' observations which included transitions of AlCl, CO, ¹³CS, ³⁴SO, SiO, ²⁹SiS, C₂H, C₂S, HCS⁺, H¹⁵NC, MgNC, OCS, SO₂, ³³SO₂, ³⁴SO₂, Si¹³CC; C₃H, C₃S, HOCO⁺, C₃H₂, C₄H, HC₃N, C₅H, CH₃CN, CH₃¹³CN, CH₃OH, NH₂CHO, C₆H, CH₂CHCN, HCOCH₃, HCOOCH₃, (CH₃)₂O, CH₃CH₂OH, and HC₇N (here, a molecular formula with no mass number denotes the main isotopomer). \bigskip

\noindent This work was partially funded by: NASA NAG5-4292, NAG5-4080, and NGT5-0083; NSF AST 96-13998, AST96-13999, AST96-13716, and AST96-15608; Taiwanese grants NSC 86-2112-M-003-T and 87-2112-M-003-007; and the Universities of Illinois, Maryland, and California, Berkeley.