“…The most recent global fittings of this type for the CO 2 molecule and its isotopomers have been carried out by Tashkun et al (3,13,14), and they have been found to be very useful in predicting a number of unmeasured rovibrational transitions of the molecule (1,2,5,7,15). The effective Hamiltonians used in these global treatments of the CO 2 vibrational-rotational spectra are extended versions of the work originally developed by Chedin using perturbation theory with algebraic contact transformations (16).…”