The rates of reaction between ninhydrin and dipeptide glycyl-glycine (Gly-Gly) have been determined by studying the reaction spectrophotometrically at 70 • C and pH 5.0 in aqueous and in aqueous cationic micelles of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The reaction follows first-and fractional-order kinetics, respectively, in [Gly-Gly] and [ninhydrin]. The observed rate constant is affected by [CTAB] changes and the maximum rate enhancement is ca. three-fold. As the k ψ − [CTAB] profile shape is characteristic of bimolecular reactions catalyzed by micelles, the catalysis is explained in terms of the pseudo-phase model of the micelles (proposed by Menger and Portnoy and developed by Bunton and Romsted). The presence of inorganic salts (NaCl, NaBr, Na 2 SO 4 ) does not reveal any regular effect but the data with organic salts (NaBenz, NaSal) show an increase in the rate followed by a decrease. The kinetic data have been used to calculate the micellar binding constants K S for Gly-Gly and K N for ninhydrin and the respective values are 317 and 69 mol −1 dm 3 .