1. Studies on Lactams. Part 107. For Part 106, see: Jayaraman, M.; Batista, M. T.; Manhas, M. S.; Bose, A. K. Heterocycles 1998, 49, 97. Microwave-induced Organic Reaction Enhancement (MORE) Chemistry. Part 14. For Part 13, see: Banik, B. K.; Barakat, K. J.; Wagle, D. R.; Manhas, M. S.; Bose, A. K. J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 5746.
2. For recent reviews, see: (a) Bose, A. K.; Manhas, M. S.; Banik, B. K.; Srirajan, V. In The Amide Linkage: Selected Structural Aspects in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Material Science; Greenberg, A., Breneman, C. M., Liebman, J. F., Eds.; Wiley-Interscience: New York, 1999; Chapter 7 (β-Lactams: Cyclic Amides of Distinction).
3. (b) The Organic Chemistry of β-Lactams; Georg, G. I., Ed.; VCH: New York, 1992.
4. For recent overviews on microwave assisted chemistry, see: (a) Varma, R. S. Green Chem. 1999, 43.
5. (b) Bose, A. K.; Banik, B. K.; Lavlinskaia, N.; Jayaraman, M.; Manhas, M. S. Chemtech. 1997, 27, 18.