as part of a collaboration with LLNL in the field of combustion chemistry. The fuels considered in this study, and the temperatures and pressures investigated, are extremely relevant to ongoing projects at LLNL related to chemistry of engine knock in spark-ignition, internal combustion engines. In the present paper, the group led by Professor Mansurov provides a review of the field of low temperature hydrocarbon oxidation and experiments carried out in the past at the Kazakh State National University. In future reports, the same group will discuss new experimental studies of oxidation under the same conditions of isomers of pentane. This work is intended to investigate the role that fuel molecular structure plays in determining knock tendency in engine combustion.