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One of the key technologies used in combinatorial chemistry is solid-phase organic synthesis (SPOS) [2], originally developed by Merrifield in 1963 for the synthesis of peptides [3]. In SPOS, a molecule (scaffold) is attached to a solid support, for example a polymer resin (Fig. 7.1). In general, resins are insoluble base polymers with a linker molecule attached. Often, spacers are included to reduce steric hindrance by the bulk of the resin. Linkers, on the other hand, are functional moieties, which allow the attachment and cleavage of scaffolds under controlled conditions. Subsequent chemistry is then carried out on the molecule attached to the support until, at the end of the often multistep synthesis, the desired molecule is released from the support. 

Solid-phase organic synthesis (SPOS) exhibits several shortcomings, due to the nature of the heterogeneous reaction conditions. Nonlinear kinetic behavior, slow reactions, solvation problems, and degradation of the polymer support due to the long reaction times are some of the problems typically experienced in SPOS [2], Any technique which is able to address these issues and to speed up the process of solid-... 

The advent of combinatorial techniques and solid phase organic synthesis may lead to preparation of large numbers of structurally related molecules in short periods of time. This is important especially for the optimization of lead structures in the pharmaceutical industry [40]. It is now well established and documented that the combinatorial technology and solid phase techniques could offer sufficient latitude for preparation of corresponding chemical libraries with broad structural diversity. The diverse potentiality of (3-lactam moiety as specific pharmacophores and scaffolds has attracted ample interests from pharmaceutical industries for the synthetic methods based on polymer-supported techniques. 

Two complementary procedures have been developed for alkylation of secondary amines [11] - both of which involve the use an excess of amine to drive the reaction to completion. The remaining amine was removed from the required tertiary amine using a polymer supported isocyanate 5 as a nucleophilic scavenger (under thermodynamic control) (Table 1 entry 2). The use of this amine scavenger has subsequently been applied in the purification of urea-based libraries prepared by solid-phase organic synthesis [12],... 

However, it was not until Merrifield developed a polystyrene matrix for peptide synthesis that a broad range of functionalized solid supports became available [91], leading to solid phase organic synthesis (SPOS) and eventually to polymer-assisted solution synthesis (PASS). Both of these techniques are heavily utilized by industry, especially for rapid library synthesis. 

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