“…b-Lactam (4-membered cyclic amide) ring structure constitutes the dominant class of agents currently employed for the chemotherapy of bacterial infections. Various 2-azetidinones have been reported to possess antibacterial (Halve et al, 2006;Suryavanshi and Pai, 2006), antifungal (Havaldar and Khatri, 2006;Panwar et al, 2006), anti-inflammatory (Gurupadayya et al, 2008), anthelminthic (Srivastava et al, 2004), antiviral (Pandey et al, 2005) and anticonvulsant (Rajasekaran and Murugesan, 2005) activities.…”