Summary. The rates and products of dediazoniation of benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate in Z,Z,Z-trifluoroethanol (TFE)/water mixtures has been determined. The results are not consistent with a mechanism in which TFE and water enter the rate-determining part of the reaction as nucleophiles. The influence of the solvent composition on product ratios and rates is explained as a solvent effect, the formation of a (solvated) aryl cation being the rate-determining part of the reaction. Thc magnitude of the preexponential factor of the Arrheizius equation is consistent with this interpretation. Since the solvolysis of p-chlorobenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate in TFE yields no detectable m-products, an aryne-like mechanism is excluded.