New compounds: derivatives of fluorene XXXVII: 9-substituted 3-nitrofluorenes

New 9-substituted 3-nitrofluorenes were prepared as potential intermediates in a study of modified electrophilicity and mutagenicity of the carcinogen 3-N,O-diacetylhydroxylaminofluorene. The reported derivatives, together with some already known 9-substituted 3-nitrofluorenes, were too unstable to survive the reducing conditions required to transform the nitro group to the corresponding hydroxylamine.