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We describe how alkenes and alkynes can be hydrogenated under mild conditions by hydrogen transfer from water mediated by titanocene(III)and a substoichiometric quantity of one of the late transition metals usually employed as hydrogenation catalysts. This process proceedspresumably by H-atom transfer from Ti
III-coordinated water to the late transition metal partner (depicted in the drawing above), a mechanismin support of which we provide theoretical and experimental evidence.