A Dual Photoredox‐ and Cp₂TiCl₂‐Catalyzed Approach for the Direct Access to α‐Vinyl‐β‐hydroxy Esters

The Front Cover celebrates the combination of photoredox catalysis with titanium catalysis and all the exciting and stimulating transformations that can be achieved without the use of metal reductants. In the present report, the combination of an organophotocatalyst with a catalytic amount of titanocene dichloride gave access to a library of differently functionalized α-vinyl-β-hydroxy esters through an α-selective vinylogous Reformatsky approach emploiyng the Hantzsch’ ester as stoichiometric organic reductant. More information can be found in the Research Article by P. G. Cozzi, F. Calogero et al.