Profile of Professor Fumio TOda

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Professor Fumio Toda received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctor's degrees from Osaka Universityin 1956, 1958, and 1961, respectively. After staying at Osaka Universityas an Assistant Professor, he obtained an Associate Professorship at Ehime Universityin 1966. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1972. He received the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award in 1988, the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 1993, the Inoue Harushige Award in 1999, and the Molecular Chirality Award in 2003. After retirement of Ehime Universityin 1999, he moved to Okayama University of Science as a Professor. He retired from the University in 2005, and currently is staying at the University as a Professor and continuing research.�Toda has research interests in the general field of organic solid state chemistry.�� In particular, his research covers various organic solid state thermal reactions, crystal topochemistry, stereo-and enatioselective photochemistry in inclusion or chiral crystals.�� He also investigates molecular recognition in inclusion crystal, using separation and optical resolution with inclusion crystallisation reactions in the solid state.� Isolations of labile conformers in a pure state as inclusion complexes are also an important research subject for him. For example, various eq-and ax-halocyclohexane derivatives have been isolated in a pure state. Very recent research topics are 1) organic solid state reactions which are accelerated by a small amount of solvent vapor, 2) phase transitions in the solid state by heating or contact with solvent vapor , for example, from a photochemically nonreactive inclusion complex into a reactive one and from a racemate inclusion complex into a conglomerate one, and 3) seed crystals which work in the solid state.