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organic compounds
The title compound, C14H24N4, is known to act as a macrocyclic ligand and its conformation has been determined to facilitate future comparisons with its coordinated forms. The alphatic macrocyclic strand is disordered with respect to a mirror plane perpendicular to the pyridine ring and containing the ordered tertiary N atom; the four donor N atoms are approximately coplanar.