I'm working on Mucuna pruriens and want to quantify L-DOPA. Could someone please suggest the cheap and best solvent for the extraction and the solvent system that has to be used for its quantification.
Dear Akshatha Banadka thank you for this interesting question. Please see these useful articles dealing with the different solvent for the extraction of L-DOPA:
1. Development of a Sustainable, Simple, and Robust Method for Efficient l-DOPA Extraction
Article Development of a Sustainable, Simple, and Robust Method for ...
2. Comparison of extraction efficiency of various methods to extract L-DOPA from Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.
Article Comparison of extraction efficiency of various methods to ex...
Both articles are freely available as public full texts on RG.