hydrocarbon mixture is critical but challenging because of the very similar molecular sizes and physical properties of C
2
H
4
ethane (C
2
H
6
)
and acetylene (C
2
H
2
). Herein
we report a robust zirconium metal-organic framework (MOF) Zr-TCA (H
3
TCA = 4
4'
4″-tricarboxytriphenylamine) with suitable pore size (0.6 nm×0.7 nm) and pore environment for direct C
2
H
4
purification from C
2
H
4
/C
2
H
2
/C
2
H
6
gas-mixture. Computational studies indicate that the abundant oxygen atoms and non-polar phenyl rings created favorable pore environments for the preferential binding of C
2
H
2
and C
2
H
6
over C
2
H
4
. As a result
Zr-TCA exhibits not only high C
2
H
6
(2.28 mmol·g
-1
) and C
2
H
2
(2.78 mmol·g
-1
) adsorption capacity but also excellent C
2
H
6
/C
2
H
4
(2.72) and C
2
H
2
/C
2
H
4
(5.64) selectivity
surpassing most of one-step C
2
H
4
purification MOF materials. Dynamic breakthrough experiments confirm that Zr-TCA can produce high-purity C
2
H
4
(99.9%) from a ternary gas mixture (1/9/90 C
2
H
2
/C
2
H
6
/C
2
H
4
) in a single step with a high C
2
H
4
productivity of 5.61 L·kg
-1
.
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