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Abstract
For a guest-host system the relative order parameters of the guest and the host are determined for one and the same sample from the circular dichroism or the UV absorption spectra and the optical rotatory dispersion, respectively. While the host is a compensated nematic phase (cholesteryl chloride/cholesteryl laurate), several optically active 4-en-3-one steroids serve as guests. It has been shown that the order of the host varies with different guests and that sequences of increasing order for the guest and for the host in presence of the distinct guests do not coincide.