Since the discovery of penicillin in 1929, b-lactam antibiotics have been recognized as potentially chemotherapeutic drugs of incomparable effectiveness, conjugating a broad spectrum of activity with very low toxicity. The primary motif azetidin-2-one ring (b-lactam) has been considered as specific pharmacophores and scaffolds. With the advent of combinatorial chemistry and automated parallel synthesis coupled with ample interests from the pharmaceutical industries, recent trends have been driven mostly by adopting solid phase techniques and polymersupported synthesis of b-lactams. The present survey will present an overview of the developments on the polymer-supported and solid phase techniques for the preparation of b-lactam ring or b-lactam containing antibiotics published over the last decade. Both unsubstituted and substitutions with different functional groups at various positions of b-lactams have been synthesized using solid phase technology. However, Wang resin and application of Staudinger [2+2] cycloaddition reaction have remained hitherto the major choice. It may be expected that other solid phase approaches involving different resins would be developed in the coming years.