I don't know which reagent you started with. Assuming that you used ordinary bleach (from the many recent threads on this subject), then there are many other possible oxidising agents to achieve the oxidation.
Here are a few
Jones Reagent see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_oxidation
PCC see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyridinium_chlorochromate
potassium dichromate
Dess-Martin oxidation see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dess-Martin_periodinane
Swern oxidation see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swern_oxidation
Oppenauer oxidation see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenauer_oxidation
The latter three were developed to work with sensitive compounds and are somewhat complex overkill for this oxidation.
List other oxidizing reagents that could be used to convert the 9-fluorenol to 9-
fluorenone
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