You might have some trouble because in any purifucation there is some loss of product. So you wouldn't be able to get the theoretical amount of product in your experiment. Cu(I) will produce a certain amount of product, Cu(II) will produce another certain amount. But if you yield product that is less than the theoretical values for both I and II, you won't know which one you had to begin with.
I think that i've come up with a slightly better protocol that involves the concept of a limiting reagent. But as requested, I won't list it.
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