Values are reported for the kinetic hydrogen isotope effects for proton-transfer reactions between hydroxide ions and nitromethane, nitroethane, nitrocyclohexane and 2-nitropropane, and between 2-nitropropane and pyridine, 2, 6-lutidine and acetate ions. In conjunction with earlier work the results suggest that the isotope effect has a maximum value for proton transfers between two acid-base systems of approximately equal p
K
, in agreement with theoretical predictions. We have confirmed that the abstraction of a proton from 2-nitropropane by 2, 6-lutidine exhibits an abnormally high isotope effect (
k
H
/
k
D
= 20), probably attributable to a considerable tunnelling correction.