The kinetics of the bimolecular reactions OH+C 2H2+M ... C 2H20H+M (I) and OH+C 2H4+M ... C 2H40H + M (2) have been investigated over an extended pressure (1-130 bar) and temperature (300-800 K) range. The OH radicals have been generated by laser flash photolysis of suited precursors and their decays have been measured by saturated laser-induced fluorescence (SLIF) under pseudo-first-order conditions. The pressure dependences have been analyzed by constructing falloff curves at fixed temperatures leading to reliable extrapolations towards the high pressure limiting rate constants k co' In the given temperature range these rate constants are represented as k l • co = 3.8xlO-11 exp(-910KIT)cm 3 molecule-I S-I and as k 2.co = 1.0xlO-11 em? molecule -I s -I . At temperatures above 700 K biexponential decay curves have been obtained. The chemical equilibria of reactions (1) and (2)