[VO(C26H34N2O2)] was synthesized in order to study its reactivity in the oxygen-transfer catalysis of alkyl hydroperoxides to a wide array of substituted olefins, The geometry about the V center is nearly square pyramidal, with an axial oxo ligand and a four-coordinate substituted Schiff base ligand. The axial V-O bond distance of 1.592(3) Angstrom is indicative of double-bond character.