So I get the fact now that cis is more polar, but my inquiry that remains in this synthesis.
if you allow me though, in a specific step of this lab, we get trans/cis isomers and the side product TPPO, so basically two solids and a liquid (cis isomer), to get the cis isomer, can we just used filtration to get the liquid which is the cis isomer, and then we are left with two solids, one is polar and the second is not which is easy to seperate because of the difference in polarity?