Recent Methods for Synthesis of Coumarin Derivatives and Their New Applications

Coumarin (2H-1-benzopyran-2-one) and its heterocyclic derivatives are widely used as lactone scaffolds used by innovative methods for the preparation of heterocyclic molecules. Nowadays, significant biological activities, as well as properties of unique nature coumarin derivatives, have played an important role in the development of novel drugs. This chapter entitles numerous methods of one-pot construction of coumarin derivatives, together with well-known name reactions and other type reactions as well, in the presence of various metal-based homogenous and heterogeneous catalyst system. Coumarin is one of the very important heterocycles and its analogs like natural product and pharmaceutically active drug molecules are extracted/isolated from a plants, animals, and microbes. Coumarin precursors have a wide range of biological activities Hence, the synthesis of coumarins and their heterocyclic analogs have become among the most interesting compound over the last many years in the growth of improved synthetic methodologies to form different types of functional groups that are present in coumarins derivatives. The synthesis of coumarins enabled by current approaches and their most recent bio-applications are discussed in this book chapter. Corresponding complex heterocycles-based coumarin analogs are produced from substituted alkyne substrates and other starting materials as well.