“…They are widely used as additives in food, perfumes, agrochemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals [27] and in the preparations of insecticides, optical brightening agents, dispersed fluorescent and tunable laser dye [28]. Coumarin and its derivatives have varied bioactivities such as antimicrobial [29][30][31][32], antidepressant [33], antioxidant [34], anti-inflammatory [35], antinociceptive [36], antitumor [37], antiasthmatic [38], antiviral [39,40], antituberculosis [41], anti-influenza [42], anti-Alzheimer [43,44], antihyperlipidemic [45], antipyretic [46], anti-HIV [47] activities. The discovery of coumarins having weak estrogenic activity resulted in the use of such derivatives as therapeutic agents in preventing the emergence of menopause-related diseases such as osteoporosis, increased risk of cardiovascular disease and cognitive deficiencies [48,49].…”