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This work reports a comparative study of hydrogen uptake capacity of early transition metal atom (Sc, Ti and V) attached to light acetylene (C₂H₂) substrate. Using density functional theory and second order Møller-Plesset method, we predict that maximum of five, five and four hydrogen molecules will be adsorbed on C₂H₂Sc, C₂H₂Ti and C₂H₂V complex, respectively, with respective gravimetric hydrogen uptake capacity of 12.43, 12, and 9.48 wt%. All the interactions between hydrogen molecules and organometallic complex are found to be attractive. The highest occupied molecular orbital-lowest unoccupied molecular orbital gap shows that the maximum H₂ adsorbed complexes are kinetically stable. The average binding energies per H₂ molecule for these complexes are within the ideal range for hydrogen storage at ambient conditions. Even after maximum hydrogen molecules adsorption on C₂H₂TM complexes, transition metal atoms remain strongly bound to the C₂H₂ substrate. We have obtained temperature and pressure range over which H₂ adsorption on these three complexes is energetically favorable using the Gibbs free energy corrected H₂ adsorption energy.