“…Owing to their advantage over other analytical methods which include atomic absorption spectrometer (ABS) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), fluorescent probes have received more and more attention in the past few decades (Ge et al, 2013 ; Chen et al, 2017 ; Han et al, 2017 ; Wang et al, 2017 ; Zhou et al, 2017 ; Liu et al, 2018 ; Tian et al, 2019 ; Pipattanawarothai and Trakulsujaritchok, 2020 ). Therefore, various kinds of probes have been reported, such as rhodamines (Zhang et al, 2020 ), phenanthroline (Nawaz et al, 2018 ), anthracene (Shree et al, 2019 ), coumarin (Qi et al, 2018 ; Qu et al, 2019 ; Zhu et al, 2020 ), and BODIPY (Cetinkaya et al, 2019 ; Fang et al, 2019 ; Xia et al, 2019 ). In contrast with other derivatives, coumarin derivatives represent good fluorescence properties, excellent photostability, and easy preparation (Zhang et al, 2014 ; Hossain et al, 2017 ; Kumari et al, 2017 ).…”