saponification product gave a stable hydrochloride, which would scarcely have been the case if the halogen had been adjacent to the amino group. Staedel and Kolb8 have shown that the action of hypochlorous acid on aminocresol hydrochloride yields the toluquinonechlorimide, but we found that excess of hypochorous acid converted the acetylaminocresol into 2, 4-dichlorotoluquinone-6-acetimide, the structure of which was ...