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What is the structure of N4O, where the 3 nitrogen bonds have different bond lengths and the N=O bond is a double bond. I just don't get it

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  1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.199316101/abstract

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  2. This implies that the double and triple bond are adjacent to eachother, so that would give the N an expanded octet of 10 electrons, but I thought that only happened after P?

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