The bending fundamental bands o f HCCCN, v< and v6, have been recorded in the region from 470 to 700 cm -1 with a resolution o f 0.04 cm "' using an FT spectrometer. The band centers have been determined precisely; v5 = 663.2220(10) and v6 = 498.8022(10) cm -1 . From the ob tained effective rotational constants, the sign o f the /-type doubling constants has been deter mined to be positive for the v5 = 1 and r6 = 1 vibrational states.To our surprise no high resolution infrared study has been reported for the three bending fundamen tals of cyanoacetylene, HCCCN. The spectra of these bands had been measured with low resolution by Turrell et al. [1] and Job and King [2]. The band origins were roughly determined by them to be v5 = 663, v6= 500, and v7 = 230 cm -1. The last number was obtained from the Raman spectrum in liquid phase [2]. On the other hand the rotational spectra of this molecule have been studied very extensively for the ground vibrational states [3], and for several excited vibrational states [4 ,5 ,6]. The rotational constants of this molecule in these low energy ex cited states have been determined very precisely. However, the vibrational energy and the sign of the /-type doubling constants can not be obtained from the pure rotational spectra. The present study was thus carried out in order to determine those for the v5 and v6 fundamental bending states.The spectra were obtained by a Nicolet Series 8000 vacuum spectrometer equipped with a 3 pm Mylar beam splitter and a C u:G e detector, using a cell of 18.7 cm path length and a gas pressure of about 600 Pa. The measurement was carried out at room temperature. The spectra were calibrated with N 20 lines The observed spectra of the v5 and v6 fundamental bands exhibit typical 17 -I band structure with an intense Q branch at the center and relatively weak P and R branches. Figures 1 and 2 show the v5 and v6 band observed in the present work. For both fun damental bands, the Q branch shows a band head structure at the low frequency side formed by the unresolved low-J components. We have analyzed 145 P and R branch transitions from P (80) to R (75) for the v5 band and 105 transitions from P (58) to R (57) for the v6 band. The measured tran sition wavenumbers of these P and R branch tran sitions were analyzed by least squares fits using the following empirical expression: (1) where v0 is the band center, B's are the effective rotational constants, and D's are the centrifugal dis tortion constants. The lower vibrational state was the ground state for the present cases. The constants for the ground state, B" and D", were fixed at the values obtained by microwave spectroscopy [3], and the three parameters, v0, B', and D', were deter mined by a least squares analysis. Since the vibra tional angular momentum is not zero in both v5 = 1 and ^6=1 states, i.e. / = 1, the parameters for the upper state in Eq. (1) include effectively the /-de pendent contributions as well as the /-type doubling contributions.The obtained standard deviation of the fits re flected fai...