NRTGE | No Reason to Get Excited

The Chemistry of Creativity, Light, and High-Energy Molecules | Noah Burns

May 12, 2026·58 min
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Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to create a molecule that has never existed before? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Stanford organic chemist Noah Burns for a wide-ranging conversation about chemistry, creativity, photochemistry, molecular design, and the strange beauty hidden inside organic reactions. What begins as a discussion about bromination and halogenation quickly expands into something much bigger: the relationship betw...

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