“…Coumarin and its derivatives are biologically interesting compounds known for their antimicrobial and antifungal (Zamocka et al, 1992), antileishmanial (Narender and Gupta, 2009), antioxidant (Alvey et al, 2008;Christos and Dimitra, 2004;Zhang et al, 2011), Cytotoxic (Nermien et al, 2011;Afsheen et al, 2011;Mahantesha et al, 2014) antitumour (Mohr et al, 1975), antiproliferation (Brunavs et al, 1993), hypotensive (Tandon et al, 1991), antiallergic (Narender et al, 1983;Coudert et al, 1988), Local anaesthetic ), central nervous system (CNS) activities and effects (Eiden and Denk, 1991), as well as treatment of Alzheimer's disease (Bruhlmann et al, 2001) and Schizophrenia disorder (Kesten et al, 1999). Fused chromene ring systems have platelet anti-aggregating, local anaesthetic (Bargagna et al, , 1991(Bargagna et al, , 1992 and antihistaminic activities (Gorlitzer et al, 1984). They also exhibit antidepressant effects (Ermili et al, 1979), inhibitory effect on influenza virus sialidases Taylor et al, 1998), DNA breaking activities and mutagenicity (Hiramoto et al, 1997), and antiviral activities (Martinez and Marco, 1997), and act as sex pheromonehomologes (Bianchi and Tava, 1987).…”