Highly correlated ab initio methodologies were used to investigate the rovibronic structure and the spectroscopy of 2 to 4 atoms radicals. For the CaO, OH, CaH, CaO+ and CaO− molecules, our computed spectroscopic constants are in good agreement with the experimental ones. The study of these diatomic fragments is essential to investigate the calcium monohydroxide isomers (CaOH-HCaO). The most complex system among these diatomic radicals is the calcium monoxide radical CaO due to high density low lying electronic states. The rovibrational energies of these states have been calculated, based on the potential energies obtained at high level of accuracy, taking into account the angular momentum and spin orbit couplings and found to be in a very good agreement with the experimental results. The complexity in studying such a system is again present in the ketenyl radical HCCO with highly coupled ground and first excited states. The Renner-Teller effect of HCCO is studied using a variational approach including all degrees of freedom. Valence coordinates have been used to fit both potential energy surfaces varying the six degrees of freedom. The low-lying rovibronic levels have been determined for different values of the total angular momentum
