The activation parameters of internal conversion, intersystem crossing, and dissociation into radical ions were determined for the exciplexes of 9-cyanophenanthrene with 1,3,5-and 1,2,3-trimethoxybenzene. The activation enthalpies for the different processes of exciplex decay were found to be close for a given exciplex in a given solvent, thus allowing a linear approximation for the temperature dependence of the logarithm of the exciplex lifetime.