and IWT-TBM (ZL36300700). I.M. is supported by a Klinisch onderzoeksfonds (KOF) mandate of the KU Leuven, Belgium. Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: G. Frans personally received a GOA grant from KU Leuven and support for travel from Academische Stichting Leuven and Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) for this work. I. Meyts' institution received a grant from Shire-CSL Behring for other works and travel expenses from Octapharma-Gilead. X. Bossuyt personally received the GOA grant from KU Leuven for this work. The rest of the authors declare that they have no relevant conflicts of interest.
To explore the connection between the architecture of poly(ether carbonate)s and certain physicochemical phenomena, the distribution of the length of oligomeric ether sequences was analyzed. Comparing experimental data with the expected distribution calculated with Monte Carlo methods revealed an unexpected preference for formation of oligomeric ether sequences of intermediate length. This surprisingly narrow distribution of sequence lengths is related to the DMC catalyst employed in the synthesis of the poly(ether carbonate)s.
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