15min:
THE COF2 HOT BANDS IN THE nu6 REGION AND THE 2 nu6 OVERTONE.

E. A. COHEN, B. J. DROUIN AND L. R. BROWN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099.

Using results from our analysis of rotational and infrared spectra of nu2, nu3, nu5, and nu6 we have fit the hot bands in the nu6 region near 774 cm-1 originating in nu2, nu3, and nu5 as well as the 2 nu6 overtone band. Although the 2 nu6 state is perturbed by the nearby and as yet unassigned nu2+ nu3 and nu2+ nu5 states, a set of effective parameters was derived which adequately describes the 2 nu6 spectrum as well as the 2 nu6- nu6 hot band. These results improve the description of the nu6 spectrum, particularly in the Q-branch region. The molecular parameters will be presented and examples of spectra will be shown.