Articles you may be interested inGround and asymmetric CO-stretch excited state tunneling splittings in the formic acid dimer Torsionally excited nϭ1 and nϭ2 subbands of the CO-stretching fundamental have been assigned in the Fourier transform infrared spectrum of 13 CH 3 OH recorded at a resolution of 0.002 cm Ϫ1 . For the nϭ1 torsional state, subbands with K values up to 7 have been identified for A torsional symmetry and up to 5 for E symmetry. For nϭ2, four subbands have so far been assigned. Subband origins have been obtained by fitting the observed wave numbers to J(Jϩ1) power-series expansions. The expansion parameters represent the data compactly to close to the experimental uncertainty in the absence of line blending or perturbations. Significant downshifting of the nϭ1 origins is observed, correlated closely with proximity to the nϭ0 OH-bending state. J-localized perturbations have been observed and characterized for several subbands. Two of the far-infrared laser lines optically pumped by the 10R͑14͒ CO 2 laser line have been assigned.