Motivated by experiments in nanoscopic systems, we study a generalized Anderson, which consist of two spin degenerate doublets hybridized to a singlet by the promotion of an electron to two conduction bands, as a function of the energy separation δ between both doublets. For δ=0 or very large, the model is equivalent to a one-level SU(N) Anderson model, with N=4 and 2 respectively. We study the evolution of the spectral density for both doublets (ρ_1σ(ω) and ρ_2σ(ω)) and their width in the Kondo limit as δ is varied, using the non-crossing approximation (NCA). As δ increases, the peak at the Fermi energy in the spectral density (Kondo peak) splits and the density of the doublet of higher energy ρ_2σ(ω) shifts above the Ferrmi energy. The Kondo temperature T_K (determined by the half-width at half maximum of the Kondo peak in density of the doublet of lower energy ρ_1σ(ω)) decreases dramatically. The variation of T_K with δ is reproduced by a simple variational calculation.