Is cis 4-tert-butylcyclohexanol more polar than trans? i recently did a reduction reaction of 4-tert-butylcyclohexanol with sodium borohydride ran a tlc and i have two rfs of .522 and .432 run in a normal phase tlc with dcm as the mobile phase. i would like to think that the cis is more polar but after i developed the tlc with kmno4 it looks like there is more of the cis than of the trans which wouldnt make any sense because the products are 80: 20 favoring trans.