CO and HI in a southern sample of interacting galaxies

Using SEST, the Parkes antenna and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, we have made a sur- vey of the 12 CO(1 0) and HI emission of an optically- selected sample of 60 southern interacting and merg- ing galaxies. In this paper we present the data and de- termine global masses of neutral gas (in molecular and atomic form) for the observed galaxies. We have detected HI in 26 systems and found that these galaxies have less than 15% of their gas in molecular form.