You can draw a 5th resonance structure with all the oxygens double bonded to the Cl, and thus giving all the oxygens no charge and the central atom a net (-1). What makes this structure a 'minor' one ...
It's driving me nuts. Is the double bond constantly changing between all possibilities fast enough that it shortens the bond length for all, or are all the double bonds existing in all possible states ...
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