Industrial purification of propylene and ethylene requires cryogenic distillation and selective hydrogenation over palladium catalysts to remove propane,e thane and/or trace amounts of acetylene.Here,wereport the excellent separation of equimolar mixtures of propylene/propane and ethylene/ ethane,and of a1/100 mixture of acetylene/ethylene by ahighly robust microporous material, MFM-520, under dynamic conditions.Insitu synchrotron single crystal X-raydiffraction, inelastic neutron scattering and analysis of adsorption thermodynamic parameters reveal that as eries of synergistic hostguest interactions involving hydrogen bonding and p•••p stacking interactions underpin the cooperative binding of alkenes within the pore.Notably,the optimal pore geometry of the material enables selective accommodation of acetylene.The practical potential of this porous material has been demonstrated by fabricating mixed-matrix membranes comprising MFM-520, Matrimid and PIM-1, and these exhibit not only ah igh permeability for propylene ( % 1984 Barrer), but also as eparation factor of 7.8 for an equimolar mixture of propylene/propane at 298 K.