(1) Presented before the Biological Chemistry Division at the 128th National Meeting, New York, September, 1954. aminofluorene, it was desired to test the activity of 3- acetylaminofluorene. The intermediate, 3-aminofluorene, had been synthesized previously by Hayashi and Nakayama2 and also by Campbell and Stafford3 but by procedures which could not readily be adapted for the preparation of relatively large quantities of 3- ...