, where SMC = S-methyl-L-cysteine, en = ethylenediamine and dach = 1,2-diaminocyclohexane, with selected biologically important ligands, viz. guanosine-5Ј-monophosphate (5Ј-GMP), L-histidine and 1,2,4-triazole, were studied. All reactions were studied in aqueous 25 mM Hepes buffer in the presence of 5 mM NaCl at pH = 7.2 under pseudo-first-order conditions as a function of concentration at 310 K by using UV/Vis spectrophotometry. Two consecutive reaction steps, which both depend on the nucleophile concentration, were observed in