Abstract:2-(2-Oxo-2H-1-benzopyran -3-yl)benzoxazole-5-carboxylic acid was synthesized from salicylaldehyde, ethyl cyanoacetate and 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid. Then eight new amide-containing coumarin derivatives were synthesized via acylcholorination and N-acylation for the first time. The yields were between 41 % and 65 %. Their structures were identified by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy and infrared spectroscopy and treated with UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy to investigate their optical physical properties. The results: the π-π* transition peaks were between 250 nm and 255 nm, the maximum absorption wavelengths were between 345 nm and 360 nm, the emission maximum λem was about 440 nm , the Stokes shift was about 90 nm and the fluorescence quantum yield was about 0.05. Their molar absorption coefficients were about 105 M-1•cm-1, showed that they are a kind of potential fluorescent materials.