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By a compactification of a complex manifold \(M\) we mean a pair \((X,Y)\), where \(X\) is a compact complex manifold, \(Y\subset X\) is a closed analytic subset and \(X\backslash Y\) is biholomorphic to \(M\). Not every compactification of a Zariski-open subset of \(\mathbb{P}^ n\) is algebraic, e.g. \(\mathbb{C}^*\times\mathbb{C}^*\) can be compactified by a Hopf surface. Compactifications of manifolds of dimension greater than 2 are not well examined. In dimension 3 the simple case \(M=\mathbb{C}^ 3\) has already been investigated by many authors, so the author devotes himself to another simple case \(M=\mathbb{C}^ 2\times\mathbb{C}^*\). If a pair \((X,Y)\) is a compactification of \(\mathbb{C}^ 2\times\mathbb{C}^*\) and \(X\backslash Y\) is even algebraically isomorphic to \(\mathbb{C}^ 2\times\mathbb{C}^*\), then \((X,Y)\) is called a compactification of \(\mathbb{A}^ 2\times\mathbb{A}^*\). The main results of the paper are the following: (a) Let \((X,Y)\) be a projective-algebraic compactification of \(\mathbb{A}^ 2\times\mathbb{A}^*\) with \(b_ 2(X)=1\) and \(Y\) with normal crossings. Then \((X,Y)\cong(\mathbb{P}^ 3,\mathbb{P}^ 2\cup\mathbb{P}^ 2)\). (b) Every smooth complete intersection of two quadrics in \(\mathbb{P}^ 5\) compactifies \(\mathbb{A}^ 2\times\mathbb{A}^*\). (c) Every rational Fano 3-fold with \(b_ 2=1\) and index \(>1\) compactifies \(\mathbb{A}^ 2\times\mathbb{A}^*\). (d) Every Fano 3-fold with \(b_ 2=1\), index =1 and belonging to one of the two types defined by the author compactifies \(\mathbb{A}^ 2\times\mathbb{A}^*\). Further the author constructs explicitly a manifold of the first type.