The kinetics of the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the naturally occurring purine nucleosides (adenosine, guanosine, deoxyadenosine, and deoxyguanosine) is reinvestigated. The analysis of the relatively complex pH (1) Presented at the Journée de Chimie des Composes Heterocycliques, Mens, Belgium, 1971. This paper is part IX of a series entitled Charge Transfer Complexes in Organic Chemistry; part VIII: