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Franz Lemmermeyer
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This is actually more of a comment on your second question, but I don't want to extend the already long list of comments, so here goes: let K be a complex quadratic number field such that $K(i)$ has class number $1$. If $K$ has class number $\ne 1$, then $K(i)$ must be the Hilbert class field of $K$, which, in this case, coincides with the genus class field of $K$. By genus theory, the discriminant of $K$ must have the form $d = -4p$ for a prime number $p \equiv 1 \bmod 4$.

In these cases, the ring of integers in $K$ is $R = {\mathbb Z}[\sqrt{-p}]$, and the ring of integers in $L$ is ${\mathbb Z}[i, (1 + \sqrt{p})/2] \ne R[i]$.

Finding number fields of higher degree with this property seems to be an interesting problem; I can't think of an obvious approach in general, but if I find anything, I'll let you know.

Franz Lemmermeyer
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