Areno [e]indols, preparation method and application as intermediates in the synthesis of products with antitumoral activity

New areno[e]indols useful as intermediates in the synthesis of products with antitumor activity of formula:

• ##STR9## wherein:
• --Ar represents phenyl or substituted phenyl
• --Ar' represents a condensed radical of formulae:
• ##STR10## wherein R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 can represent a hydrogen, a halogen, a linear or branched alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl radical, a formyl, acyl, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, aminocarbonyl, alkylaminocarbonyl, dialkylaminocarbonyl, cyano, hydroxy, alkoxy, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, acylamino or nitro radical;
• and X represents oxygen, sulfur or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen.