THE addition of alcohols to some substituted nitro-olefins has been reported previously; thus, P-nitrostyrene (Rosenmund, Ber., 1913, 46, 1034: Meisenheimer and Heim, ibid., 1905, 38, 467), p-bromo-P-nitrostyrene (Thiele and Haeckel, Annab%, 1902, 325, l),% nitro-l-