Methyl Isocyanide Hot Bands in the Region 1300-1560 cm-1.

The hot bands accompanying the fundamentals nu6 and nu3 of CH3NC in the region 1300-1560 cm-1 observed in high-resolution Fourier transform recordings complemented by diode laser spectra have been analyzed. The observed transitions comprise 16 subbands of the pair of perpendicular E-E bands nu6± + nu8± - nu8± and nu7-/+ + 2nu80 - nu8± whose upper states form a Fermi dyad, 18 subbands of the A1,2-E perpendicular bands nu6-/+ + nu8± - nu8±/nu7± + 2nu8±2 - nu8± with upper states forming another Fermi dyad, and 8 subbands of the bi-parallel E-E band nu3 + nu8± - nu8±. The anharmonic, Coriolis, and l-type interactions which couple these upper states with each other and with the states nu7-/+ + 2nu8±2, nu4 + 3nu8±1, and nu4 + 3nu8±3 have been included in an 18 x 18 Hamiltonian matrix whose eigenvalues model the upper levels of the observed transitions.