1 Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Science, Nanjing University of Technology, No. 5 Xinmofan Road, Nanjing 210009, People's Republic of China.
The title compound, C(32)H(56)N(2), was synthesized by the reaction of terephthalaldehyde and dodecan-1-amine. The imines adopt trans conformations, with the two halves of the mol-ecule related to each other by a centre of symmetry.