“…Conversely for two previously observed vibrational bands, (0 0 2) and (0 1 2), we were able to assign transitions to the 0 00 level for the first time and determined the vibrational band origins as 5529.4377 and 6686.9928 cm À1 , respectively. A significant number of newly determined energy levels, a total of 722, belong to the series of bending states (0 1 0), (0 2 0), (0 3 0) and (0 4 0), previously analyzed in I. Mikhailenko et al [17] have shown that there is a strong perturbation at about K a = 13 between the (1 0 0) and (0 2 0) states. Our previous labeling of the (0 2 0) levels was based on intensity considerations and in particular that transitions J + 1 ‹ J are stronger for pure rotational transitions.…”