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organic compounds
The title compound, C23H23N3O2, is a terdentate NNN donor ligand. The molecule lies about a crystallographic mirror plane which passes through a C and an N atom of the substituted pyridine ring. The orientation of the exocyclic N atoms in the solid is not what is required for complex formation with metal centres.