The synperiplanar conformer is by far the lowest one.
The anticlinal conformer, also known as gauche, is so
much higher in energy that no transitions have been observed;
it is unlikely to be important for radio astronomy.
The transition frequencies were reported by
(1) R. A. Motiyenko, L. Margulès, and J.-C. Guillemin,
2013, Astron. Astrophys., 559, Art. No. A44.
As the reported uncertainties were slightly conservative,
we employed uncertainties close to those implicitely
assumed. The predictions should be well sufficient for
radio astronomical observations. Transitions with predicted
uncertainties larger than 300 kHz should be viewed with
some caution.
The 14N hyperfine splitting should be unimportant
for radio astronomical observations.
The ab initio dipole moment components were reported
in (1).
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