“…Luminescence-based detections have drawn attention due to their quick response time, high perceptivity, and ease of operation along with portability. − Various kinds of materials such as organic dyes, quantum dots, metal nanoclusters, conjugated polymers, and supramolecules are reported for the detection of this anion. − However, these materials suffer from some disadvantages like poor water solubility, toxicity, laborious synthesis, and poor stability. Consequently, metal–organic frameworks, consisting of inorganic metal or metal oxide nodes and organic polydentate bridging ligands with excellent porosity, large surface area, high thermal stability, and diverse structures, are extensively applied in many areas such as smart sensing, hydrogen storage and separation, drug delivery, nonlinear optics, magnetism, proton conductivity, supercapacitor, catalysis, and energy storage. − The luminescence properties of MOFs have been extensively used for the sensing experiment of various types of analytes, as the luminescence properties are very much dependent on their physical features and interaction with analytes via the hydrogen bond, coordinate bond, pi–pi interaction, electron transfer, and energy transfer. − Due to different coordination environments, variable oxidation states, formal charges of metal ions, and different binding sites of ligands, MOFs are very useful for the purpose of discernment even at the atomic extent. − …”