Citicoline and synthetic method thereof

The invention discloses citicoline and a synthetic method thereof.The synthetic method includes subjecting cheap and easily available cytidine, serving as a raw material, and dichlorophosphoryl morpholine to condensation at a 5' position highly selectively so as to obtain 5'-phosphorylmorpholinylcytidine; subjecting the 5'-phosphorylmorpholinylcytidine and phosphocholine chloride calcium to condensation in solvents so as to obtain the citicoline.Total yield is up to 58% only by the two steps.The synthetic method is cheap in and easily available to raw materials, expensive cytidine monophosphate is unused, operation steps are simplified, and reaction scale can be expanded to synthesize 500 g of citicoline.The synthetic method has a potential application prospect by providing a novel citicoline synthetic route.